"Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most……" — Richard Dawkins
"Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin."
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens…
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves…
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[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
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Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species,…
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However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or…
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It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial…
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It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only…
— Marjory Stephenson
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Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must…
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