Love without evidence is stalking.
TIM MINCHINIt’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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