"The Bishop goes on to the human eye,……" — Richard Dawkins
"The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity."
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
— Niels Bohr
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to…
— Muhammad Ali
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
— Leonard Cohen
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Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the…
— Emma Goldman
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Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want…
— Louise Hay
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
— Gregory Bateson
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey…
— Stephen Leacock
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Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all…
— Shakti Gawain
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As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!
— Louise Hay
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