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

Richard Dawkins

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
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
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Alone Earth Rebel Selfish
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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Children Education Evidence Thinking
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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Atheist Delusion Insanity People Religion Suffering
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Exploit Individual Ready Selfish System
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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Book Contradict Evidence Throw True
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Agree Interesting Science
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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Born Chance Generosity Science Selfish Understand Upset
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Act Disguise Inspection Selfish
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Evidence Prejudice Private Public replace Science
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
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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Children Fact Inherit Majority Parents Regret World
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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Capable Experience Feeling Giving Human Science Wonder
Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
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

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