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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Richard Dawkins

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Argument
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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Beautiful Evolution Extreme Place Understand Universe World
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
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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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Disguise Inspection Selfish
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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Atheist Authority Comparison Independence Organization
It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Deep Deliver Music Passion Poetry Rank
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
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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Deep Dinner Fox Life Rabbit Run
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Poetry Real Reality
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science
The less you think, the more you believe.
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Believe Minimalism One Liner Thinking
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Discourage Faith Inquiry Meme Rational Unconsicious
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
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Change Thinking True

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