American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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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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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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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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