You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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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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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 majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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