The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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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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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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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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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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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