American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
RICHARD DAWKINSEven if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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