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75 Ethologist Quotes

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

Based Blindly Book Evidence
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Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Christ Disagree Followers Love
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Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Aid Fine Get Metaphors
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Natural selection is anything but random.

Anything Natural Random Selection
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The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

Consolation Feeling Inside Nice
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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Atheism Evolution Feeling Led
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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

Accept Far Grander Imagine
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The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

America Enlightenment Reason Schools
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

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

Above Average Career Medium
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Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Could Coverage Improved Item
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A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

Believe Delusion Despite Evidence
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Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

About Among Argue Critics
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Evolution never looks to the future.
Evolution Future Looks Never
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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Am Darwinian Exist Explaining
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Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
Give Had Mysterious Origin
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How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

Because Believe Comforting Finds
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We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Allowed Been Brought Criticise
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I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

Anglican Certain Church Country
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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.

About Absolutely American Being
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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.

Better Book Cambridge Chosen
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
Against Childhood Crime Religion
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We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Cannot Course Disprove Fairies
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

Admit Ape Like Realise
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.

Beautiful More Often Out
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