There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Be 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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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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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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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