The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINSChance is just a word expressing ignorance.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSThere is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
RICHARD DAWKINSAfter sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
RICHARD DAWKINSGravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhen 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.
RICHARD DAWKINSBe thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
RICHARD DAWKINSDNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
RICHARD DAWKINSHow thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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