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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.
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I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.
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There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.
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They are in you and me they created us, body and mind and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.
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In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.
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The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.
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Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else.
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I'd like everybody to be secular. I suppose I have to say politically I would like religion to become gentler and nicer and to stop interfering with other people's lives, stop repressing women, stop indoctrinating children, all that sort of thing. But I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.
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Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural genius, he worked very hard - even though he was an invalid. He was a great family man, a very nice man. I think he was admirable in all sorts of ways.
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I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
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[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.
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Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.
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[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
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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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Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.
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