#vol

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #feeling #led #me #personal

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#complexity #cumulative #evolution #existence #explaining

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#attempt #billion #evolved #fact #i

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#doubt #earth #evolution #goes #much

Evolution never looks to the future. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#future #looks #never

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#always #been #civilization #culture #doubt

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. ↗

— John Bunyan

#charity #compassion #generosity #helping-others #today

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#american #associate #been #corporate #creative

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#every #puts #revolution #robes #successful

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#belief #believe #comes #feeling #heart