We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
TIM MINCHINFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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 famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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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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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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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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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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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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