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There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.
I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.
I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born
'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.
If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them.
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.
I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low.
I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.
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.
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.
People don't like change when it comes to changing their own lifestyle habits.
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.
By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!
Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.
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.
We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.
I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.
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.
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.
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.
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.
I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.
There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.
Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.
Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.
I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.
There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.