How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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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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