(Evolutionary Biologist)
"There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out."
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"...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong."
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"Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it."
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"The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear."
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"There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true."
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"Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false."
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"The world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors. That, in a sentence, is Darwinism."
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"There is no spirit-driven life force, no throbbing, heaving, pullulating, protoplasmic, mystic jelly. Life is just bytes and bytes and bytes of digital information."
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"Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not."
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"This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose."
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"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference."
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"The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy."
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"You don't have to be a scientist you don't have to play the Bunsen burner in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need and fill that fancied gap. Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture."
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"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
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"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."
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"I want to say that killing for God is not only hideous murder it is also utterly ridiculous."
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"It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that, if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it couldn't work."
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"There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality."
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"I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true."
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"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
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