American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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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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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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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 often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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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 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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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