Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
TIM MINCHINIt is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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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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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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