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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

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
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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Acceptance Ignorance Literature Mathematics Science
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
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.
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Born Chance Generosity Science Selfish Understand Upset
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
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science
Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Magic Reality Science
Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Children Conclusion Consequence Different Faith Learning
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Book Contradict Evidence Throw True
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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Atheist God Message People
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Arrogance Clarity Mistake One Liner
If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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Atheist God Religion
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Important Mathematics
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Dance DNA Music
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Belief Institution Passage Power Religion Time Truth

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