The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle.
真相比任何神話、編造的謎團(tuán)或奇跡都更加神奇——以這個(gè)詞最好和最激動(dòng)人心的意義而言。
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
我們終將死去,而這讓我們成為幸運(yùn)的人。
Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.
生物學(xué)是對(duì)那些看起來像是為了某種目的而被設(shè)計(jì)的復(fù)雜事物的研究。
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
信仰是偉大的逃避,是逃避思考和評(píng)估證據(jù)需要的偉大借口。
Science is the poetry of reality.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
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.