Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINSSuch 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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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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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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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.
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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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 majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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