My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe less you think, the more you believe.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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