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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.

Richard Dawkins

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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Disapprove Evolution Science
Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Choose Indeed Life Wonderful
Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space
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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Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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People Religion True Wise
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Argument
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Alone Earth Rebel Selfish
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
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
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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Die Life
If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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Biology Children Expectation Human Moral Nature Teaching
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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Atheist Discourage People Reason Religious Time
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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Intensity Opinion Truth
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Born Generosity Selfish
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Desire Forsake Life Thankful Vain
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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Diversity Enthusiasm Fact Opinion Science

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