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.
TIM MINCHINEmpathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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 have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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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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