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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

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Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

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

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep...

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

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

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

I love romantic poetry.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

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