#ra

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#creator #exists #god #i #i think

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget. ↗

— Peter Davison

#enough #forget #going #had #i

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product. ↗

— Peter Davison

#problem #produce #product #programs #terrible

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work. ↗

— Peter Davison

#performance #poetic #poets #read #real

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#blind faith #discouraging #expedient #faith #inquiry

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#brains #drop #means #open-minded #our

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

— Richard Dawkins

#average #career #i #medium #nothing

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? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#born #discovering #eager #ever #go

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#bomb #brains #culture #deep #deep space