Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
RICHARD DAWKINSDo not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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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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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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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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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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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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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINS