Richard dawkins Quotes

“Religion teaches you to be satisfi...

“Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood”- Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Feb 15
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"Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a ...

"Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, ' If science can't do something, therefore religion can'." - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Jan 10
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"Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them h...

"Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you." - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Sep 28
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“We are all atheists about most of the god...

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” ― Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Nov 09
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"National pride has evil consequences. Prefer pride in humanity. German pride gave us Hitler,...

"National pride has evil consequences. Prefer pride in humanity. German pride gave us Hitler, American pride gave us Trump, British pride gave us Brexit. If you must have pride, be proud that Homo sapiens could produce Darwin, Shakespeare, Mandela, Einstein, Beethoven" - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Mar 31
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“How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that...

“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.” Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Apr 11
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“We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die beca...

“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. We won the lottery of birth, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred." - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Mar 03
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“We are all atheists about most of the god...

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” ― Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Jun 30
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“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them h...

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.” - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Apr 27
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“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to ...

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.” ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
📅︎ Dec 08
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die becau...

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 potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Mar 14
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that ...

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion.
📅︎ Sep 02
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"Gods are fragile things; They can ...

"Gods are fragile things; They can be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Sep 06
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“We are all atheists about most of the god...

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Jul 23
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"I am not sure what to make of my admittedly anecdotal observation that ma...

"I am not sure what to make of my admittedly anecdotal observation that many of those who most ardently oppose the taking of embryonic life also seem to be more than usually enthusiastic about taking adult life." -Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Jul 02
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"Modern physics teaches us that there is more to truth than meets the eye; or tha...

"Modern physics teaches us that there is more to truth than meets the eye; or than meets the all too limited human mind, evolved as it was to cope with medium-sized objects moving at medium speeds through medium distances in Africa." - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Feb 18
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“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to g...

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.” -Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
📅︎ Oct 02
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But, however many ways there may be of being al...

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.—Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Sep 14
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‎"Religion teaches the dan...

‎"Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end." Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Jul 19
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"Religious faith deserves a chapter to itself in the annal...

"Religious faith deserves a chapter to itself in the annals of war technology, on an even footing with the longbow, the warhorse, the tank, and the hydrogen bomb." - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Dec 21
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"A good scientific theory is on...

"A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified." Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Jul 11
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"Let us try to teach generos...

"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish."- Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Jul 25
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“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibili...

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.” - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Sep 21
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'Who, before Darwin, could have guessed that something so apparently de...

'Who, before Darwin, could have guessed that something so apparently designed as a dragonfly's wing or an eagle's eye was really the end product of a long sequence of non-random but purely natural causes?' Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Nov 15
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"We are surrounded by endless forms, most beautiful and most wonderful, and ...

"We are surrounded by endless forms, most beautiful and most wonderful, and it is no accident, but direct consequence of evolution by non-random natural selection - the only game in town, the greatest show on earth." - Richard Dawkins
📅︎ Sep 30
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