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False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
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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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I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.
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Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.
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