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Science is the poetry of reality.

Richard Dawkins

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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Blind Design Evil Expectation Indifference Observe Property Universe
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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God Religion Science Suppose Wonder
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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Disturb Finding Matter People Place Reality Togetherness
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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Arrange God Religion
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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Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand
In the beginning was simplicity.
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Beginning One Liner Simplicity
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Argument
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Life Responsiblity
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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Benefit Choose Education Science Technology
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Act Disguise Inspection Selfish
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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People Religion True Wise
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Arrogance Clarity Mistake One Liner
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Cause Grasp Human Reality Suffering Tool Word
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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Capable Experience Feeling Giving Human Science Wonder
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science

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