Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are so beautiful and elegant and so apparently purposeful, they could only have been made by an intelligent designer. But [Charles] Darwin provided a simpler explanation. His way is a gradual, incremental improvement starting from very simple beginnings and working up step by tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection.

Richard Dawkins's Popular Quotes

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

- Richard Dawkins

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to cri…

- Richard Dawkins

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

- Richard Dawkins

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

- Richard Dawkins

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

- Richard Dawkins

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

- Richard Dawkins

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

- Richard Dawkins

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

- Richard Dawkins

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

- Richard Dawkins