A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
RICHARD DAWKINSIt is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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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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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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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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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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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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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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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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