You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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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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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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