The less you think, the more you believe.
RICHARD DAWKINSHow 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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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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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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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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.
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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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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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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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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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