Tim Minchin Quotes

Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

Love without evidence is stalking.

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

Define yourself by what you love.

I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

Who's the world going to revolve around now?

Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

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.

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.

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

I don't know what it is about "magic happens"-stickers on cars but every time I see one I wanna get out my permanent marker and sneak over and write underneath it "so does cot death".

I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.