We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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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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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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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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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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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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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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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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