I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
RICHARD DAWKINSAmerican political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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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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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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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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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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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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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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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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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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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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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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