I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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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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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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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.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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