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.
RICHARD DAWKINSPerhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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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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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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