Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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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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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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