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Richard Dawkins Quotes: The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.
         

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.


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The less you think, the more you believe.



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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.



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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.

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