The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
TIM MINCHINTake them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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