Richard Dawkins Quotes
"We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here""Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you""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)""The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, 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""Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence""There is no well-demonstrated reason to believe in God. If you were inculcated with it as a child, you might have a belief that a certain book is true and God's word. Letting go of that is not easy, but you should do it""Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong""We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes""The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry""Religion teaches you to be satisfied with non-answers. Science is about the opposite""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 pitiless indifference""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?""Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility""Ignorance is no crime and that young people should not be blamed for their ignorance, but somehow we should get around to doing something about it""I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world""The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice""There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point""Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law""Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose""Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion"
