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!
RICHARD DAWKINSWhen 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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