American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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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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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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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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