I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is the poetry of reality.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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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 essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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