Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion.…
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks…
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We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.…
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But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not…
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We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for.…
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Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be…
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Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
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[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
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