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.
RICHARD DAWKINSYou can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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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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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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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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.
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