You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
RICHARD DAWKINSAfter sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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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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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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