DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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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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I 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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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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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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