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.
TIM MINCHINWe must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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 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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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