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“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.”
― Tim Minchin

“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.”
― Tim Minchin

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

“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?”
― Tim Minchin

“Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?”
― Tim Minchin

“Please don’t make the mistake of thinking 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, to write beautiful things.

If you need proof: Twain, Adams, Vonnegut, McEwen, Sagan, Shakespeare, Dickens. For a start.

You don’t need to be superstitious to be a poet. You don’t need to hate GM technology to care about the beauty of the planet. You don’t have to claim a soul to promote compassion.

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.”
― Tim Minchin

“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.”
― Tim Minchin

“Understanding that you can’t truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.

Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.”
― Tim Minchin

“I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here’s my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it’s tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you’ll be
old. And then you’ll be dead.”
― Tim Minchin

“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".”
― Tim Minchin

“It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days”
― Tim Minchin

“Tim Minchin's musings on Tony, the first 'fish' ever to have feet:

Imagine what Tony would think, standing there on his brand new feet on the brink of the beginnings of mankind as we know it... if he could look forward just a few short... hundreds of millions of years... to see one of his descendants... an Israeli Jew by the name of Jesus, having a nail hammered through his feet... the very feet that Tony provided him with, as a punishment for having a, sort of, schizophrenic discourse with a God who was created by Mankind to explain the existence of feet in the absence of the knowledge of the existence of Tony.”
― Tim Minchin

“Don’t Seek Happiness - Happiness is like an orgasm: if you think about it too much, it goes away. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy, and you might find you get some as a side effect. We didn’t evolve to be constantly content. Contented Australopithecus Afarensis got eaten before passing on their genes.”
― Tim Minchin

“The more you know, the harder you will find it to make up your mind, it doesn't really matter if you find it. You can't see which grass is greener, chances are it's neither and either way it's easier to see the difference when you're sitting on the fence.”
― Tim Minchin

“I don't go in for ancient wisdom
I don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy”
― Tim Minchin

“Arts degrees are awesome. And they help you find meaning where there is none. And let me assure you, there is none. Don’t go looking for it. Searching for meaning is like searching for a rhyme scheme in a cookbook: you won’t find it and you’ll bugger up your soufflé.”
― Tim Minchin

“There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.”
― Tim Minchin

“Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.”
― Noel Fielding

“It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!”
― Noel Fielding

“I did work in a bakery for one day. But the boss went off and when he came back I was lying on the floor eating cakes.”
― Noel Fielding

“I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.”
― Noel Fielding

“Some people have a fear of being on stage. I have a fear of coming off it.”
― Noel Fielding

“I don't pick stuff up I knock stuff down!”
― Noel Fielding

“oh you know........ not brilliant”
― Noel Fielding

“Kids have no problem with weirdness. You say, Theres a fox over there made of goose fat they go yeah right, What does he do? And you say it eat encyclopedias they say GREAT!
They never at any point go no thats just silly

So I have to respect kids
and a lot of time for kids”
― Noel Fielding

“Richmond- Heres a question who in here would eat a spider? I would”
― Noel Fielding

“This my friends is an outrage”
― Noel Fielding

“Noel- How dare you were not rapist

Jimmy- Why are you wearing a cape then?

Noel- Jack the Ripper wore a cape and he wasn't a rapist. He was

Russell- A serial murder there's a difference”
― Noel Fielding

“I have never thought of myself as an actor, thought I play about 500 different characters in the show. Actors play someone else I play myself.”
― Noel Fielding