Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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