black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

Richard Dawkins

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Disagree Evaluation Evidence Teaching Thinking
Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Conclusion Consequence Different Faith Learning
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Stop Truth Unfortunately
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Confusion Fun Myth Truth
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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Intensity Opinion Truth
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Evil Religion Root
Religion: Together we can find the cure.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Cure Finding One Liner Religion Togetherness
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Building Evolution Gravity Jump Theory
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Blind Book Evidence Mind People Religious Revelation Switch Want
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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist God Religion
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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Acceptance Ignorance Literature Mathematics Science
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Born Generosity Selfish
Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Argument
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Life Reality Religion
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Life Responsiblity

Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Richard Dawkins Quotes