You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
TIM MINCHINI will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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 … 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.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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