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.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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