Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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