You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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