Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
RICHARD DAWKINSUnfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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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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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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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 majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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