Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINSAmerican political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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