When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINSIndeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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 world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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