Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same, but with detail differences - they look like different drafts of the same book. In extreme cases, like a human and a beetroot, it's like the difference between Matthew and Luke's Gospel - clearly they tell the same story, but with different words. Whereas with a human and a chimp, it's like two different printings of Matthew, with a few typos in one.

Richard Dawkins's Popular Quotes

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

- Richard Dawkins

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

- Richard Dawkins

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to cri…

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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

- Richard Dawkins

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

- Richard Dawkins

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

- Richard Dawkins