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• The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Encouragement, Thinking, Healthy

  "Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder". Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 Television, www.edge.org. November 12, 1996.

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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.

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  Thinking, Important, Answers

  "God vs. Science". Interview with David Van Biema, content.time.com. November 5, 2006.

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• [If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

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  Kind, Mercy, Indifferent

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable.

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  Believe, People, Half

  Source: inters.org

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• 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.

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  Meaningful, Atheist, Responsibility

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, October 2, 2006.

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• You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.

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  Unlikely, Certain, Shows

  The Hugh Hewitt Show, www.hughhewitt.com. October 20, 2009.

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• Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Atheism, World

  "Religion's misguided missiles" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

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  Business, Believe, Power

  "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.

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• Science tells us what we have reason to believe. Not what we have a duty to believe. Not what experts, in their pontificating wisdom, instruct us to believe... No, science tells us what there is good reason to believe.

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  Believe, Experts, Reason

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• We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

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  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

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  Death, Religious, Pride

  Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.267, Random House

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• 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?

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  Spring, Curiosity, World

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

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  Miracle, Facts, Spirit

  Source: inters.org

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• It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Medicine, Criticism, Harm

  "Libel laws silence scientists" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in motion but a God who cares about human beings, because we seem uniquely amongst creatures on the planet to have this far-developed sense of morality.

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  Thinking, Law, Who Cares

  Source: inters.org

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• I can't be sure God does not exist. On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six. That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don't.

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  Mean, Doe, Six

  "'I Can't Be Sure God Does Not Exist': World's Most Notorious Atheist Richard Dawkins Admits He Is in Fact Agnostic". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 24, 2012.

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• I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism or Islam, and even participate in religious rituals such as marriages and funerals, without buying into the supernatural beliefs that historically went along with those traditions. We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

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  Loyalty, Religious, Business

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• I'd like everybody to be secular. I suppose I have to say politically I would like religion to become gentler and nicer and to stop interfering with other people's lives, stop repressing women, stop indoctrinating children, all that sort of thing. But I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.

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  Children, People, Going Away

  "Interview: Richard Dawkins Keeps Making New Enemies". Interview with Isaac Chotiner, newrepublic.com. October 29, 2013.

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• If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place.

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  Atheist, Believe, Moving

  "Viruses of the Mind". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1993.

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• The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.

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  Strong, Two, Giving

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• Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.

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  Religious, Science, Thinking

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• It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.
  People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?

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  Believe, Ignorance, People

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• Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

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  Atheism, Young, Ancestor

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• We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

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  Chance, Existence, Living Things

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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