Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINSBeing an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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It 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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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