We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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 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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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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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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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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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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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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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