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 MINCHINScience 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.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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