Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
RICHARD DAWKINSThings exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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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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 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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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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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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