Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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 is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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 or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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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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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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