Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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