Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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 meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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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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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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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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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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