The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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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 theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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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 only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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