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.
TIM MINCHINIt’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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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 I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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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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