It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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