There 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.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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 is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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