Tim Minchin Quotes

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? 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?

We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

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

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.

Love without evidence is stalking.

A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. 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.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.

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

Define yourself by what you love.

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 logically 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.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

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

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.

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

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. You don't have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things... 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. Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.

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

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

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

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

Who's the world going to revolve around now?

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.

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

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?