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- Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also…
- The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils…
- Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
- It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think…
- Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
- ...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the…
- Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are…
- The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also…
- All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
- Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved…
- Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant…
- I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the…
- The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it? Carl Sagan, I…
- [Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.
- Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths…
- What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking…
- Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic…
- I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
- Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed,…
- Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
- I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
- I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to…
- 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…
- Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have…
- You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach