Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINSBlasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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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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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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 shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous 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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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