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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

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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.
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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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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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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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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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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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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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