"The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale." ― Richard Dawkins Topic(s): Life More From Richard Dawkins "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." "Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time." "Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection." More In Life "All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."― Robert Southey "Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation."― Eileen Caddy "Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."― Carl Friedrich Gauss