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Richard Dawkins Quotes
Page 2 of 2Richard Dawkins
March 26, 1941 -
Nationality: English
Category: Scientist
Subcategory: English Scientist
|  Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. | | Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. | | I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. | | 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. | | 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. |
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