Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINSThings 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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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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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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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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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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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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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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry 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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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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