The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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.
RICHARD DAWKINSChance is just a word expressing ignorance.
RICHARD DAWKINSThere is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet 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.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhen one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
RICHARD DAWKINSA 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!
RICHARD DAWKINSWhen two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhy, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
RICHARD DAWKINSIndeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
RICHARD DAWKINSBlasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution 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.
RICHARD DAWKINS