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.
RICHARD DAWKINSUnfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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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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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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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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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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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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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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