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.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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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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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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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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 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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