Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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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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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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