Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
RICHARD DAWKINSOur 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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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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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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The 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.
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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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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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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