Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Creationists 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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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