Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
RICHARD DAWKINSGravity 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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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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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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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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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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.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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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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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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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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