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Science is the poetry of reality.

Richard Dawkins

Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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Disturb Finding Matter People Place Reality Togetherness
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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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Poetry Real Reality
I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Assumption Faith God Life Live
Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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Character Condition Survival
In the beginning was simplicity.
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Beginning One Liner Simplicity
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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Animal Evidence Evolution Force Science Survival
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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Brain Complex Conscious Model World
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Arrogance Clarity Mistake One Liner
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Advocate Ban Religion Tolerance
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Exploit Individual Ready Selfish System
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Force Physics Science
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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Arrange God Religion

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