Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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 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 idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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