Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
RICHARD DAWKINSI 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.
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 universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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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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