A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Define yourself by what you love.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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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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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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