Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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 only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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