Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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