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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.

Richard Dawkins

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Advocate Ban Religion Tolerance
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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Belief Evade Evaluate Evidence Excuse Faith Ignorance
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Benefit Choose Education Science Technology
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
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Against Religion Satisfaction Teaching Understand World
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Discourage Faith Inquiry Meme Rational Unconsicious
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Important Mathematics
Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Brain Deep Drop Open Minded
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Born Die Lucky People
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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Argument
In the beginning was simplicity.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Beginning One Liner Simplicity
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Change Thinking True
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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Capable Evolution Existence Principle Selection Theory
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Adult Alteration Control Development Evolution Program
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Confusion Fun Myth Truth

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