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Because Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's…
- There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that…
- Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps…
- I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
- Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
- The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught…
- We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our…
- Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a…
- I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
- As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom…
- Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.
- Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
- I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
- Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
- I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
- In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their…
- Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives…
- There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.
- In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.
- It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the…
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- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle