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.
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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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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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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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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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