Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
RICHARD DAWKINSDon’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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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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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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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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