My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
RICHARD DAWKINSGravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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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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