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Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

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

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.

My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about.

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.

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