Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
TIM MINCHINIf 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.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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 awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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