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.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution 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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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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 total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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