The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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