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.
RICHARD DAWKINSSuch delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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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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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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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 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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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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 important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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