Feb
14
There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn’t purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.
Richard Dawkins - Letter to his daughter. Kenyan-born British zoologist and evolutionary theorist. Dawkins’s book The Blind Watchmaker demolished the creationists’ “argument from design.” Dubbed “Darwin’s rottweiler.” Ardent atheist. Wrote best-selling book The God Delusion. (via helvetebrann)