When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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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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 meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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