We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
TIM MINCHINScience is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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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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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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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 are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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