When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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