The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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.
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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