Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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