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.
RICHARD DAWKINSHuman suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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