Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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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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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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.
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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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