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

Richard Dawkins

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Amount Beyond Decent Natural Suffering World
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Atheist Belief Evidence Faith Result Science
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Important Mathematics
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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Atheist Believe God Humanity
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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Absolute Believe Claim Evolution Ignorance Insane Stupidity
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
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Agree Interesting Science
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
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Evidence Prejudice Private Public replace Science
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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Blind Book Evidence Mind People Religious Revelation Switch Want
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Dance DNA Music
Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Magic Reality Science
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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Alive Discover Humanity Limitation Time Understand
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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Doubt Earth Evolution Sun Theory
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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Evolution Machine Molecule Science Survival Truth Vehicle
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Admit Evolution Realize

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