Famous quotes on religion by Richard Dawkins

• 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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• 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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• 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. 
  

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• One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all. 
  

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• The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. 
  

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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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• The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
  

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• The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. 
  

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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. 
  

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