It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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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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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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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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