Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is the poetry of reality.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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My 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.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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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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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.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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