It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe less you think, the more you believe.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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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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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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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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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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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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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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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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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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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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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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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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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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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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