The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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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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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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