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.
RICHARD DAWKINSDNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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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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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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