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If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution. (Richard Dawkins)
It is very good that Wikipedia also gives a page to "Internet Meme". Internet memes are arguably the most important subset of memes today. View quote
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The chicken is only an egg's way for making another egg. View quote
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that). View quote
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Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution? View quote
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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. View quote
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true. View quote
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Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it? View quote
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. View quote
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Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in. View quote
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. (Richard Dawkins)
The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed. View quote
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In the beginning was simplicity. View quote
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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. View quote
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bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen. View quote
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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. View quote
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The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something. View quote
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The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality. View quote
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it. View quote
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The truth is that all examples of child protection and parental care, and all associated bodily organs ... are examples of the working in nature of the kin-selection principle. View quote
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. (Richard Dawkins)
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance. View quote
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. View quote
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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. View quote
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You've just said a very revealing thing. Are you telling me that the only reason you don't steal and rape and murder is that you're frightened of God? View quote
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