I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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