Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is the poetry of reality.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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 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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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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