Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINSCreationists 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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