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.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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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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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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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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