Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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.
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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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If 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.
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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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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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