I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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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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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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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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