The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
RICHARD DAWKINSDNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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