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Say Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.
- If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously offensive, it simply…
- I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about…
- 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…
- I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism…
- I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness…
- 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…
- People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this…
- Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?
- 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…
- The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward…
- Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am…
- When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great…
- Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad…
- Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that…
- Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations…
- It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane…
- I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an…
- There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is…
- If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works?…
- If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions for people, I…
- Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey…
- I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
- Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that…
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- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
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