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The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.


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Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.



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

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



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

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



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

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



Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.



The less you think, the more you believe.

The less you think, the more you believe.



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.

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.



The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.



Science is the poetry of reality.

Science is the poetry of reality.



The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.





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No delays in expressing decisions. Whether its a Yes or No... Right or Wrong... Just tell that for heaven sake.



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In the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.



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In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race



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Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.



We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.



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Deliver infinite growth having your customers talk about you, exclaim you and tell their friends and colleagues about you.



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I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.



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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.



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For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.




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