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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

Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS

One Liner Poetry Reality Science

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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Conclusion Consequence Different Faith Learning
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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Disapprove Evolution Science
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Capable Experience Feeling Giving Human Science Wonder
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Believe God Humanity
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Arrogance Clarity Mistake One Liner
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Exploit Individual Ready Selfish System
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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Evolution Machine Molecule Science Survival Truth Vehicle
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Belief Institution Passage Power Religion Time Truth
The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Chicken Egg Revolution Science
Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Express Ignorance One Liner Word
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
RICHARD DAWKINS

People Religion True Wise
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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Adult Alteration Control Development Evolution Program
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Disguise Inspection Selfish
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Doubt Earth Evolution Sun Theory
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Essence Life Probable Science
The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Fact Inherit Majority Parents Regret World
Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
RICHARD DAWKINS

God Religion Science Suppose Wonder
Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
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

Benefit Choose Education Science Technology
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Agree Interesting Science
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Education Evidence Thinking
Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Choose Indeed Life Wonderful
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 DAWKINS

Disturb Finding Matter People Place Reality Togetherness
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Book Contradict Evidence Throw True