After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
RICHARD DAWKINSMyths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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