Richard Dawkins Quotes
Best 10 The God Delusion Quotes by Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion Quotes
“A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents.”
“A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple.”
“A medieval cathedral could consume a hundred man-centuries in its construction, yet was never used as a dwelling, or for any recognizably useful purpose.”
“A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution.”
“Bush presided over more executions in Texas than any other governor in the state’s history, averaging one death every nine days.”
“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
“Even without physical abduction, isn't it always a form of child abuse to label children as possessors of beliefs that they are too young to have thought about?”
“If by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying. It does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.”
“If science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can?”
“There are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.”
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“Morality doesn’t mean ‘following divine commands’. It means ‘reducing suffering’. Hence in order to act morally, you don’t need to believe in any myth or story. You just need to develop a deep appreciation of suffering.”
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