Quote by Richard Dawkins
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. – Richard Dawkins

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The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. – Richard Dawkins

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

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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. – Richard Dawkins

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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. – Dorothy Thompson

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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. – Simone de Beauvoir

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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Age considers youth ventures. – Rabindranath Tagore

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How can a doctor judge a womans sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. – Nellie Bly

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