The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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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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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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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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