It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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.
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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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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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