Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
RICHARD DAWKINSEven if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
RICHARD DAWKINSIndeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
RICHARD DAWKINSChance is just a word expressing ignorance.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
RICHARD DAWKINSYou can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
RICHARD DAWKINSMy 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.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith 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.
RICHARD DAWKINSBlasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
RICHARD DAWKINSPerhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
RICHARD DAWKINSScientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is the poetry of reality.
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