Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINA famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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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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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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