It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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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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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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