It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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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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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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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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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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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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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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