Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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 important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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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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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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