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 DAWKINSThe idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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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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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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