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.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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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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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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