You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
TIM MINCHINWe must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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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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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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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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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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