The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
RICHARD DAWKINSI 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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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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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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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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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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