Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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My 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.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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