Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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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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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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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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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.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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