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.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith 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.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
RICHARD DAWKINSScientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
RICHARD DAWKINSAfter sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINSA 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!
RICHARD DAWKINSIt would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
RICHARD DAWKINSChance is just a word expressing ignorance.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINSThere’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
RICHARD DAWKINSMyths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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