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“I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.”

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John Maynard Smith

John Maynard Smith, born on January 6, 1920 and died on April 19, 2004, was a distinguished geneticist from the United Kingdom. His contributions to evolutionary biology, particularly in the fields of natural selection and genetic diversity, have had a profound impact on modern biology. more

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“Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind”

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“The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.”

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“The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed.”

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“Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.”

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Book:The Meaning of Evolution

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“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”

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“I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends.”

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“There is magic in patience, you know.”

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