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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

Richard Dawkins

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Dance DNA Music
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Against Religion Satisfaction Teaching Understand World
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Agree Interesting Science
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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Deep Dinner Fox Life Rabbit Run
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Poetry Real Reality
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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Atheist Authority Comparison Independence Organization
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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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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God Religion Science Suppose Wonder
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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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Force Physics Science
I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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Diversity Enthusiasm Fact Opinion Science
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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Color Life Planet Reality Science Sleep
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Admit Evolution Realize
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
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Alone Earth Rebel Selfish

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