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.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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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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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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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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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.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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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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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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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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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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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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