Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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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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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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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