The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
RICHARD DAWKINSOur life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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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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