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“An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
— Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins: Militant atheism
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“The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.”
— Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins: Why the universe seems so strange
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“Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.”
— Richard Dawkins paraphrasing biologist Lewis WolpertRichard Dawkins: Why the universe seems so strange
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“Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.”
— Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins: Why the universe seems so strange
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“Could we, by training and practice, emancipate ourselves from Middle World and achieve some sort of intuitive, as well as mathematical, understanding of the very small and the very large? I genuinely don’t know the answer.”
— Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins: Why the universe seems so strange
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