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Christopher Hitchens quotes about science
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
— Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
— Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
— Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.
— Christopher Hitchens
And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
— Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
— Christopher Hitchens
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.
— Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.
— Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearful, partially formed animals with a terror of death and the dark
— Christopher Hitchens
Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being “not even wrong.” Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type.
— Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.
— Christopher Hitchens, Inequalities in Zimbabwe
Yet in our hands and within our view is a whole universe of discovery and clarification, which is a pleasure to study in itself, gives the average person access to insights that not even Darwin or Einstein possessed, and offers the promise of near-miraculous advances in healing, in energy, and in peaceful exchange between different cultures. Yet millions of people in all societies still prefer the myths of the cave and the tribe and the blood sacrifice.
— Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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