It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSGravity 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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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 total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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