There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?


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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions an...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the h...
RICHARD DAWKINS
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, Lon...
RICHARD DAWKINS
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations ha...
RICHARD DAWKINS
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'
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Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing fo...
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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale
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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,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect o...
RICHARD DAWKINS
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.
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I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there&...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Осьминог ничем не похож на мышь, а оба они сильно отлич�...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Некоторые критики ошибочно считают, что «Эгоистичный �...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules kno...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably non...
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But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the na...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could...
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Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye wi...
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of re...
RICHARD DAWKINS
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two m...
RICHARD DAWKINS
It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious
defence? One might have supp...
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The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never ...
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Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly depa...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consumin...
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,...
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The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independen...
RICHARD DAWKINS
If you don't understand how something
works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You d...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest n...
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