If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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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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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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 chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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