Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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