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I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them is given 20 minutes to give their point of view, and then 10 minutes for a rebuttal, or whatever, that creates the illusion that you really do have here two equal points of view of equal scientific standing.
β€” Richard Dawkins
Tags: illusion, view, people, you

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But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it.
β€” Richard Dawkins Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
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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.
β€” Richard Dawkins
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Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
β€” Richard Dawkins
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
β€” Richard Dawkins
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Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.
β€” Richard Dawkins
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