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.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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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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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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