Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINSGravity 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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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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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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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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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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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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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 meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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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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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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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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