It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
TIM MINCHINTake them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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 must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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