American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
RICHARD DAWKINSSuch delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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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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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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