The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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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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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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