There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
TIM MINCHINYou know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Define yourself by what you love.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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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?
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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