My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
RICHARD DAWKINSOur life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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If 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.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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