Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINSI cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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 majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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 idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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