Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
RICHARD DAWKINSI 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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.
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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 essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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