It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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