Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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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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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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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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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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 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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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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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