Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
TIM MINCHINOnce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
TIM MINCHINScience adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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 MINCHINLove without evidence is stalking.
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 MINCHINA famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
TIM MINCHINIt’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
TIM MINCHINThere are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
TIM MINCHINFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINThere 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.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
TIM MINCHINRespect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
TIM MINCHINDefine yourself by what you love.
TIM MINCHINSend thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
TIM MINCHINYou know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHINIt is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
TIM MINCHIN