Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Such 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.
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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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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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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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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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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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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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