Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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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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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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