Science is the poetry of reality.
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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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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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.
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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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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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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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