“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.”
— Richard Dawkins
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