Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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 beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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