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Kind 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…
- [It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
- 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…
- Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we…
- Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they…
- It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very,…
- Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
- The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real,…
- Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
- To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if…
- A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
- Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with…
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