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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Richard Dawkins

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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Doubt Earth Evolution Sun Theory
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.
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Born Die Lucky People
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Atheist Discourage People Reason Religious Time
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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Adult Alteration Control Development Evolution Program
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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Born Chance Generosity Science Selfish Understand Upset
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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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Express Ignorance One Liner Word
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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Life Reality Religion
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Building Evolution Gravity Jump Theory
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Capable Experience Feeling Giving Human Science Wonder
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Poetry Real Reality
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Belief Institution Passage Power Religion Time Truth
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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Brain Complex Conscious Model World
Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
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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Beautiful Evolution Extreme Place Understand Universe World
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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Alive Discover Humanity Limitation Time Understand

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