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All Quotes by author - Richard Dawkins

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

" An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version. "

" Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose. "

" By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. "

" Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots. "

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

" Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full. "

" God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. "

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

" I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. "

" I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education. "

" I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology. "

" It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. "

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

" My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. "

" My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism. "

" Natural selection is anything but random. "

" Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree. "

" Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. "

" Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. "

" Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium. "

" Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that. "

" There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving - she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, 'What if you are wrong?' and I answered that rather briefly, and that's gone viral. "

" The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle. "

" We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. "

" You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution. "

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