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 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!
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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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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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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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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Sometimes 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.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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