You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHINSend thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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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 adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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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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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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Define yourself by what you love.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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