The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is the poetry of reality.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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