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Cannot Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- 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…
- You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to…
- A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand…
- Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind…
- A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to…
- Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it…
- Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected…
- We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that…
- Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.
- Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable…
- A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because…
- Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.
- Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the…
- Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first…
- 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,…
- We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
- There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can…
- Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
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- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
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