Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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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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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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