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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

Richard Dawkins

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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Evolution Machine Molecule Science Survival Truth Vehicle
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Atheist Delusion Insanity People Religion Suffering
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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Die Life
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Change Thinking True
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Against Religion Satisfaction Teaching Understand World
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Crime Victim
Science is the poetry of reality.
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One Liner Poetry Reality Science
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Atheist Freedom Happiness Live Proper
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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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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Beautiful Evolution Extreme Place Understand Universe World
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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Choose Indeed Life Wonderful
Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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God Religion Science Suppose Wonder
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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Alive Discover Humanity Limitation Time Understand
Evolution 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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Adult Alteration Control Development Evolution Program

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