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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.

Richard Dawkins

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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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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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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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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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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