We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe 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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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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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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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 only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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