Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhen I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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