Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINSIn the beginning was simplicity.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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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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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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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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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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