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.
RICHARD DAWKINSI 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.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINSIn the beginning was simplicity.
RICHARD DAWKINSYou can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
RICHARD DAWKINSMyths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
RICHARD DAWKINSEven those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe 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.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhen two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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