We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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