Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhy, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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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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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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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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