You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHINScience adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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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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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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