Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
RICHARD DAWKINSDo not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Religious 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.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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When 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.
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