Richard Dawkins Quotes

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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Definitions, Belief

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  Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

  Richard Dawkins

  Love, Hope, Wisdom

  The Selfish Gene ch. 1 (1976)

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  Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

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  Education, Atheist, Children

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The less you think, the more you believe.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Thinking, Doubt

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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Funny, Sarcastic, Atheist

  River Out of Eden ch. 4 (1995)

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  Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

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  Jumping, Evolution, Building

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• Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

  Richard Dawkins

  Inspiration, People, Moral

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, www.abc.net.au. 2006.

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• How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

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  Thoughtful, Matter, Born

  Twitter post from May 22, 2014

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• Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly 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.

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  Nature, Learning, Science

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River out of eden: a Darwinian view of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

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  Hands, Brain, Variation

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• 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. The number of people who could be here, in my place, out number the sand grains in the Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist... we are privileged to be alive and nd we should make the most of our time on this world.

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Numbers

  Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

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• I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Atheist, Learning

  "The Two Types of Faith" by Greg Cootsona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2016.

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• My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

  Richard Dawkins

  Feelings, Brain, Belief

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• Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mad Cow Disease, Evil, Religion

  "Is Science a Religion?". Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.

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• I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

  Richard Dawkins

  Argument, Ads

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• By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

  Richard Dawkins

  Funny, Trust, Laughter

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.

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  Religious, Believe, People

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• Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Argument, Offense

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• It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process - that this protégé of supernatural intellect couldn't think of a better way to forgive our sins than to have himself tortured to death.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  Interview with Chip Rowe, www.playboy.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

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  Cancer, Weather, Space

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• The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

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  Reality, Fiction, Literature

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• The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

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  Religious, Real, Believe

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.345, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

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  Reality, Miracle, Magic

  Richard Dawkins (2011). “The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Sleep, Thinking

  YouTube Channel "RodiAgnusDei"/"Richard Dawkins debates Rowan Williams", www.youtube.com. February 05, 2013.

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