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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.

Richard Dawkins

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Change Thinking True
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Important Mathematics
Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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Believe Faith Justify People Religious
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Amount Beyond Decent Natural Suffering World
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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Life Reality Religion
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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Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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Benefit Choose Education Science Technology
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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Atheist God Religion
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
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Dance DNA Music
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Beautiful Puzzle Solution
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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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Belief Evade Evaluate Evidence Excuse Faith Ignorance
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
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Poetry Real Reality

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