Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
RICHARD DAWKINSI cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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 feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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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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