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.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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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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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 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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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 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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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Faith 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.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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