We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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