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.
TIM MINCHINYou know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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