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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.

Richard Dawkins

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science
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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Intensity Opinion Truth
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Admit Evolution Realize
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Act Disguise Inspection Selfish
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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Life Reality Religion
Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Express Ignorance One Liner Word
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Divine Elegance Ideas Reality Science Universe
Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Brain Deep Drop Open Minded
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Dance DNA Music
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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Believe Delusion Galaxy God Sleep Thinking
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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People Religion True Wise
Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
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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Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space

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