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Often Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion…
- The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
- If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in…
- Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case,…
- The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward…
- I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
- It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
- After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades…
- 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…
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- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
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- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange