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.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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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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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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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 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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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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 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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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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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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