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.
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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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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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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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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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 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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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