Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Richard DawkinsEvilโฆdoesnโt mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to โthe Christian majorityโsโ private liking.
Richard DawkinsWhen you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.
Richard DawkinsIt often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
Richard DawkinsThere is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life, for example, there was never sufficient natural selection pressure to develop better eyes, individuals could earn other things like smiley smiles rather than waste energy & time on better eyes.
Richard Dawkins