Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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 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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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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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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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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