We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
RICHARD DAWKINSChance is just a word expressing ignorance.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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 chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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