The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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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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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 theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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