The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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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 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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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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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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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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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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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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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