We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
RICHARD DAWKINSUnfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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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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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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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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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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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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