The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe 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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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 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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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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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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