Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
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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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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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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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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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