We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf 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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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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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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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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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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 chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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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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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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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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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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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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