Richard Dawkins Quotes
"Secularism teaches us to be good for our own sake.""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""We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.""By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.""The chances of finding out what is actually going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang a sense of humor on it and hope for the best.""I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.""Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.""For good people to do evil things, it takes religion""Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion""Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose""Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law""There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point""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.""I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world""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""Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility""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?""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""Religion teaches you to be satisfied with non-answers. Science is about the opposite""The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry"