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Richard Dawkins Quotes: Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to being herded.
         

Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to being herded.


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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.



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



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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.



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The less you think, the more you believe.



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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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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.



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Science is the poetry of reality.



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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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That which you fix your heart to, believing with all your desire you will get, you will.



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The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.



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Take what's useful, leave out what's useless, and add a bit of yourself!

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