Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINSUnfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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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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