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What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened
I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.
God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.
If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them.
I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.
I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.
'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born
Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.
I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low.
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look.
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!
It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.
We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.
Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.
I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.
If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.