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Richard Dawkins Inspirational Quotes (436)

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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.
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Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
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God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.
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In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.
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Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.
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Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?
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I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
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We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
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There is something so mysterious that it is almost like God. God is in the equations. God is in the fundamental constants. And that's fine. I mean, that's just redefinition of that which we find mysterious at the basis of the universe.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.
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There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .
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[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.
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I think from my point of view - I won't say it doesn't matter whether [Darwinian explanations] are right or wrong, it's just sufficient in some cases, for me, to be able to say, Well, at least it's not totally implausible from a Darwinian point of view.
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False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.
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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.
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Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.
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