Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. . . . The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
Richard DawkinsBlasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
Richard DawkinsUnfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
Richard DawkinsI know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.
Richard DawkinsThere 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.
Richard DawkinsReligious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
Richard DawkinsDNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
Richard DawkinsTag: science
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
Richard DawkinsIn the beginning was simplicity.
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