The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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