The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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