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

Richard Dawkins

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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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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Poetry Real Reality
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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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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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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