The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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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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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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