Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
RICHARD DAWKINSDNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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