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In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.

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I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

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I love romantic poetry.

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Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

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Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

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If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

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I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

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Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

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What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

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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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A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

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The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

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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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People like to trace their ancestry.

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At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

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I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.

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When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.

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I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

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We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.

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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

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Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

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What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

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All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.

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An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

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A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

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Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

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We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.

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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

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Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

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

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I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.

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I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable.

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