There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
RICHARD DAWKINSIn the beginning was simplicity.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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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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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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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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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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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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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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