The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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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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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.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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