Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
RICHARD DAWKINSMyths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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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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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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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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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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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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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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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 chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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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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