The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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