Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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: Together we can find the cure.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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