“Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.”

We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.

Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

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.

You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

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?

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.

Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.

I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Who’s the world going to revolve around now?

Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

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.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

He’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face.

And I can say that I’ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat.

The best compliment for me is when someone says they’ll pay to watch me play, And I can say that I’ll pay to watch MS Dhoni bat. MS is not the next Gilchrist. He’s the first MS Dhoni

I would be comfortable to bat anywhere.

I now know what Sachin Tendulkar feels every time he bats in India.