Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
TIM MINCHINSend thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
-
-
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.
TIM MINCHIN -
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.
TIM MINCHIN -
Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
TIM MINCHIN -
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.
TIM MINCHIN -
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
TIM MINCHIN -
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
TIM MINCHIN -
Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
TIM MINCHIN -
We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
TIM MINCHIN -
We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
TIM MINCHIN -
It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
TIM MINCHIN -
Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
TIM MINCHIN -
You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
TIM MINCHIN -
There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
TIM MINCHIN -
Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
TIM MINCHIN -
A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
TIM MINCHIN