Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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If 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.
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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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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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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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