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.
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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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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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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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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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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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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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