It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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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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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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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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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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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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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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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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