This is from the end of Richard Dawkin's speech at the Darwin Day Lecture 2019 - Humanists UK.
"Atheists have the intellectual courage to accept reality for what it is, wonderfully and shockingly explicable. As an atheist, you have the moral courage to live to the full the only life you're ever going to get, to fully inhabit reality, rejoice in it, and do your best to finally leave it better than you found it."
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Thursday, October 3, 2019
I'm adding this to my very long list of favorite quotes.
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