When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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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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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.
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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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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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