Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
RICHARD DAWKINSDon’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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