Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
TIM MINCHINWe have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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