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.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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A 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!
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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