Richard Dawkins

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#am #because #i #i am #religion

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? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#born #discovering #eager #ever #go

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#delusion #despite #evidence #lack #people

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#championship #chess #computer #computer program #forward

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#coming #count #day #decades #die

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #born #generosity #let us #selfish

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. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#really #religion #satisfied #teaches #things

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

#atheists #believed #ever #further #go

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

#bottom #design #evil #expect #good

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. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#almost #become #boast #boasts #claim