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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.

Richard Dawkins

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.
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Alive Discover Humanity Limitation Time Understand
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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Atheist God Religion
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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People Religion True Wise
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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Atheist Delusion Insanity People Religion Suffering
Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
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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Decision Ideas Life Stop Trick
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Discourage Faith Inquiry Meme Rational Unconsicious
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Confusion Fun Myth Truth
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Act Disguise Inspection Selfish
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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Blind Book Evidence Mind People Religious Revelation Switch Want
In the beginning was simplicity.
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Beginning One Liner Simplicity
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Argument
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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Animal Evidence Evolution Force Science Survival
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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Assumption Faith God Life Live
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
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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Die Life

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