Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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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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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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