You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHINThere are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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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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Define yourself by what you love.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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