The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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 often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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