We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINSBlasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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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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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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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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