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.
RICHARD DAWKINSDo not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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 book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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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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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 has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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