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.
RICHARD DAWKINSI am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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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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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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 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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