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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.

Richard Dawkins

Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Express Ignorance One Liner Word
I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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Diversity Enthusiasm Fact Opinion Science
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Agree Interesting Science
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
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Confusion Fun Myth Truth
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Color Life Planet Reality Science Sleep
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
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Admit Evolution Realize
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Change Thinking True
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Discourage Faith Inquiry Meme Rational Unconsicious
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Desire Forsake Life Thankful Vain
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
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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Children Conclusion Consequence Different Faith Learning
I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Assumption Faith God Life Live
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science
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

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