I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution 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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change 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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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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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 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 there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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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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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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