When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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