We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is the poetry of reality.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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.
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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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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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