Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious 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.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhy, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe 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.
RICHARD DAWKINSEven 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.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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 DAWKINSHuman suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
RICHARD DAWKINSAfter sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
RICHARD DAWKINSOur life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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 DAWKINSThe essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINSBeing an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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