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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Richard Dawkins

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
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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Biology Children Expectation Human Moral Nature Teaching
Science is the poetry of reality.
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One Liner Poetry Reality Science
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Advocate Ban Religion Tolerance
Faith 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.
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Belief Evade Evaluate Evidence Excuse Faith Ignorance
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Important Mathematics
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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Deep Dinner Fox Life Rabbit Run
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Evidence Prejudice Private Public replace Science
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Discourage Faith Inquiry Meme Rational Unconsicious
The 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.
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Children Fact Inherit Majority Parents Regret World
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Poetry Real Reality
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Act Disguise Inspection Selfish
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Life Responsiblity
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately

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