Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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: Together we can find the cure.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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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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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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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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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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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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