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Richard Dawkins Quotes: The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
         

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.


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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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



The less you think, the more you believe.

The less you think, the more you believe.



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.

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.



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.

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 the poetry of reality.

Science is the poetry of reality.



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.

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.





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It ain't the things you don't know what gets you into trouble it's the things you know for sure what ain't so.

It ain't the things you don't know what gets you into trouble it's the things you know for sure what ain't so.



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Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.



I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.



Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.



The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.



Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.



When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.



If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.



The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.

The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.



When you conceive something in your mind, know it is a fact, and that there can be no question about its manifestation.

When you conceive something in your mind, know it is a fact, and that there can be no question about its manifestation.




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