Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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After 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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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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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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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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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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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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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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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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