The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
RICHARD DAWKINSDo not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf 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.
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.
RICHARD DAWKINSHow 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 DAWKINSSometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
RICHARD DAWKINSDon’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
RICHARD DAWKINSMy objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
RICHARD DAWKINSUndisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
RICHARD DAWKINSA 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!
RICHARD DAWKINSIt is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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