Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINSend thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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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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