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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 Dawkins

In the beginning was simplicity.
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Beginning One Liner Simplicity
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Atheist Discourage People Reason Religious Time
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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Destroy Evolution Existence Past Quality
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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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Brain Deep Drop Open Minded
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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Children Dangerous Deliberate Faith Innocent Vulnerable Wrong
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Life Responsiblity
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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Brain Complex Conscious Model World
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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Believe Faith Justify People Religious
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Important Mathematics
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Belief Evade Evaluate Evidence Excuse Faith Ignorance
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Disguise Inspection Selfish
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Admit Evolution Realize
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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Children Fact Inherit Majority Parents Regret World
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Against Religion Satisfaction Teaching Understand World
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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Intensity Opinion Truth
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Poetry Real Reality
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand
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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Evolution Machine Molecule Science Survival Truth Vehicle
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Alone Earth Rebel Selfish
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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Born Die Lucky People
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Confusion Fun Myth Truth
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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Alive Discover Humanity Limitation Time Understand
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Change Thinking True
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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God Religion Science Suppose Wonder
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Atheist Belief Evidence Faith Result Science

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