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In fact writing a computer program is a pretty good way to summarize knowledge about any set of rules.

— Richard Dawkins Climbing Mount Improbable (1996)

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Eternity is best spent under a general anesthetic – which is what is going to happen.

Interview with Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience (2019)

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

River out of Eden (1995)

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism.

The Blind Watchmaker (1986)

The evidence for evolution is at least as strong as the evidence for the Holocaust, even allowing for eye witnesses to the Holocaust.

The Greatest Show on Earth (2009)

The universe does not owe you a sense of hope.

The Big Questions (2008)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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