Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINEmpathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINYou don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
TIM MINCHINI spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
TIM MINCHINThe day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
TIM MINCHINOnce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
TIM MINCHINThe 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.
TIM MINCHINThroughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
TIM MINCHINIf 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.
TIM MINCHINPlease 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 MINCHINIf 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 MINCHINWe must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
TIM MINCHINBe demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
TIM MINCHINScience is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
TIM MINCHINRespect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
TIM MINCHINScience is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
TIM MINCHIN