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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

~Richard Dawkins

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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

~Richard Dawkins

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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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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

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Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

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A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

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God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.

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The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: March 26th, 1941

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