There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious 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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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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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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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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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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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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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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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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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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