We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINSChance is just a word expressing ignorance.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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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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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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