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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Human beings are just gene machines.
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I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.
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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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I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
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Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.
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I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.
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Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.
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If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests.
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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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Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.
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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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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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There is something so mysterious that it is almost like God. God is in the equations. God is in the fundamental constants. And that's fine. I mean, that's just redefinition of that which we find mysterious at the basis of the universe.
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When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
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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?
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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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Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind
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