Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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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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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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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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