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.
RICHARD DAWKINS
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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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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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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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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