American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
RICHARD DAWKINSBlasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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 total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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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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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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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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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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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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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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