I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
RICHARD DAWKINSYou can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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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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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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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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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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