Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINSDNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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