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.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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