Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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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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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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