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.
RICHARD DAWKINSMyths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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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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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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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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