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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

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Admit Evolution Realize
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Beautiful Puzzle Solution
Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Children Education Evidence Thinking
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Change Thinking True
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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Acceptance Ignorance Literature Mathematics Science
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Agree Interesting Science
It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Deep Deliver Music Passion Poetry Rank
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Cure Finding One Liner Religion Togetherness
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Arrogance Clarity Mistake One Liner
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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Die Life
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
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Atheist Believe God Humanity

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