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.
TIM MINCHINThe 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.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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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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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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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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 must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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