The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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.
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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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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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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