It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
TIM MINCHINYou know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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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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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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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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