Quote by Richard Dawkins
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack a

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, wheres the harm? September 11th changed all that. – Richard Dawkins

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The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no. – Richard Dawkins

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God
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We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us – through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology – that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. – Richard Dawkins

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

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It was part of your religion to hate the British. – Rebecca Harding Davis

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Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. – Arthur Wellesley

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Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom. – Author Unknown

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You are at enmity with yourself. – Jacob Boehme

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Criticism should be a casual conversation. – W. H. Auden

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Teaching is the royal road to learning. – Jessamyn West

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Learning

As with the advent of spring cleaning we clear out of our houses the things no longer useful to us, why not at the same time relieve our minds of worthless rubbish? – Emily Tolman, “Seasonable Suggestions,” 1907

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