Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINSDon’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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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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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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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