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

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Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book, Creation: Life and How to Make It, is as interesting as you would expect. But he illuminates more than just the properties of life: his originality extends to matter itself and the very nature of reality. Not since David Deutsch's The Fabric of Reality have I encountered such a compelling invitation to think everything out afresh, from the bottom up.

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

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…

- Richard Dawkins

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

- Richard Dawkins

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

- Richard Dawkins

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

- Richard Dawkins

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

- Richard Dawkins

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

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

- Richard Dawkins

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

- Richard Dawkins