Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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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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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.
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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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