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.

RICHARD DAWKINS

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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.

Richard Dawkins

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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.

RICHARD DAWKINS

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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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.

RICHARD DAWKINS

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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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

RICHARD DAWKINS

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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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.

RICHARD DAWKINS

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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
RICHARD DAWKINS

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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

RICHARD DAWKINS

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

RICHARD DAWKINS

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

RICHARD DAWKINS

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

RICHARD DAWKINS

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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.

RICHARD DAWKINS

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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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.

RICHARD DAWKINS

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 chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.

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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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.

RICHARD DAWKINS

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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

RICHARD DAWKINS

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Disguise Inspection Selfish
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.

RICHARD DAWKINS

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 time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.

RICHARD DAWKINS

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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