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.
RICHARD DAWKINSCreationists 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 chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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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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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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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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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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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