The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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If 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.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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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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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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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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