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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More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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