We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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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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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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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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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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