The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
RICHARD DAWKINSEven 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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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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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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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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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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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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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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 less you think, the more you believe.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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