Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
RICHARD DAWKINSThere’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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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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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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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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