Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
RICHARD DAWKINSUnfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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