Richard Dawkins
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial and still he would not understand, not in a million years, the basics of modern physics.”
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.”
“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”
“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”
“DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.”
“It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that).”
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.”
“We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.”
“Science is the poetry of reality.”