There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINSBe thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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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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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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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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