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Richard Dawkins

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“Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.”— Richard Dawkins
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“I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.”— Richard Dawkins
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“I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.”— Richard Dawkins
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“Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.”— Richard Dawkins
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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.”— 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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“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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“If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.”— Richard Dawkins
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“At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.”— 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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“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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“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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“Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.”— Richard Dawkins