Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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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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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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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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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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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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