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.
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.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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 important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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