Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Define yourself by what 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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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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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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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