Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
RICHARD DAWKINSThings exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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 solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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You 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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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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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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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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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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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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