I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupa…

Richard Dawkins
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2000). Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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