68 Quotes with the Skeptic Topic

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Richard Dawkins, Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Science Writer, 1941 –

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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.

Richard Dawkins, Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Science Writer, 1941 –

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We are humble enough to say we don't know, what of theologians like McGrath? He knows. He's signed up to the Nicene Creed. The universe was created by a very particular supernatural intelligence who is actually three in one. Not four, not two, but three. Christian doctrine is remarkably specific: not only with cut-and-dried answers to the deep problems of the universe and life, but about the divinity of Jesus, about sin and redemption, heaven and hell, prayer and absolute morality. And yet McGrath has the almighty gall to accuse me of a 'glossy', 'quick fix', naive faith that science has all the answers.

Richard Dawkins, Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Science Writer, 1941 –

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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.

Richard Dawkins, Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Science Writer, 1941 –

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

Richard Dawkins, Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Science Writer, 1941 –

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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, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Richard Dawkins, Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Science Writer, 1941 –

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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, Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Science Writer, 1941 –

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A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

Richard Dawkins, Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Science Writer, 1941 –

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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins, Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Science Writer, 1941 –

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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins, Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist and Science Writer, 1941 –

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