We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
TIM MINCHINOnce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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