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.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Science has its own magic: the magic 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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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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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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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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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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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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