49 result(s) for Richard Dawkins Quotes.
"Faith can be very, very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong."
"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
"In the universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
"Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can f*** off."
"Isn't 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?"
"It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself."
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"Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are 'valid,' let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so."
"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion."
"Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when."
"My passion for both evolutionary biology or rationality, are pretty much the same as my passion for music."
"To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries."
"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."
"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."
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
"Science is the poetry of reality."
"There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point..."
"God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture."
"“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”"
"Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child, is a grievous wrong."
"Natural selection is not gene centrist. It is the gene’s eye view of the world that lies at the heart of the explanation."
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"We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes."
"But my belief is that the tendency to turn human judgments into divine commandments will ruin us."
"A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence."
"Lying for Jesus – it’s called ‘faith’."
"It is almost as if the majority have an interest in being misled."
"One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding."
"My passion is for the total separation of knowledge and power."
"Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view."
"Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can f*** off."
"We are all going to die, and we are all going to be dead for a very long time."
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence."
"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
"The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions."
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"The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable."
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
"We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more of the same."
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him."
"The universe does not owe us comfort."
"I am very, very interested in science, and I know it can be a force for good."
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."
"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish."
"Natural selection is selfish and amoral."
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
"We are the only species capable of self-understanding, but I think we have a biased view."
"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 (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that)."
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born."
