Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
RICHARD DAWKINSToday the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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