You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHINDefine yourself by what you love.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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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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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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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 awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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