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.
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 admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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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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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 idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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