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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.

Richard Dawkins

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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Evolution Machine Molecule Science Survival Truth Vehicle
Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Brain Deep Drop Open Minded
The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Chicken Egg Revolution Science
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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Blind Design Evil Expectation Indifference Observe Property Universe
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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Adult Alteration Control Development Evolution Program
Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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Decision Ideas Life Stop Trick
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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Arrange God Religion
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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People Religion True Wise
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
The less you think, the more you believe.
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Believe Minimalism One Liner Thinking
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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Acceptance Ignorance Literature Mathematics Science
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Agree Interesting Science
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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Atheist God Religion
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Dance DNA Music
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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Alive Discover Humanity Limitation Time Understand

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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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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