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

Richard Dawkins

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
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
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
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Against Childhood Crime Religion Satisfaction
Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space
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
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Atheist Freedom Happiness Live Proper
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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Believe Faith Justify People Religious
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
If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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Biology Children Expectation Human Moral Nature Teaching
Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Cure Finding One Liner Religion Togetherness
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Born Generosity Selfish
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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Adult Alteration Control Development Evolution Program
Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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Decision Ideas Life Stop Trick
Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Magic Reality Science

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