We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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 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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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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 meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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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 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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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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