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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.

Richard Dawkins

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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space
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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Doubt Earth Evolution Sun Theory
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Book Contradict Evidence Throw True
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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Atheist Discourage People Reason Religious Time
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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Alive Discover Humanity Limitation Time Understand
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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Biology Evolution Fact History Ignorant Science
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
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Exploit Individual Ready Selfish System
You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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Character Condition Survival
It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Deep Deliver Music Passion Poetry Rank
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Agree Interesting Science
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Important Mathematics
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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Blind Book Evidence Mind People Religious Revelation Switch Want
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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Destroy Evolution Existence Past Quality
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Amount Beyond Decent Natural Suffering World
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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Belief Evade Evaluate Evidence Excuse Faith Ignorance

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