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.
RICHARD DAWKINSAmerican political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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