There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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 adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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