The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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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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Let 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.
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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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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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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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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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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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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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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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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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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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