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.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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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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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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