You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHINYou don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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