Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINSI 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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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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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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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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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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