American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
RICHARD DAWKINSAmerican political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
RICHARD DAWKINSThings exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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 DAWKINSReligion: Together we can find the cure.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhen one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
RICHARD DAWKINSMyths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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 DAWKINSYou can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe 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.
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 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 DAWKINSThe idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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