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Richard Dawkins Quotes
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
By all means lets be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
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 because of, the lack of evidence. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
Isnt it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? - Richard Dawkins Quotes
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, wheres the harm? September 11th changed all that. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you cant prove that there arent any, so shouldnt we be agnostic with respect to fairies? - Richard Dawkins Quotes
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. - Richard Dawkins Quotes
What has theology ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has theology ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that theology is a subject at all? - Richard Dawkins Quotes
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