Quote #10
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
More from Richard Dawkins
- We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?
- Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
- We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The pote…
- The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.
- It would be deeply depressing if the only way children could get moral values was from religion. Either from scripture, and God knows we do…
- We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still …
- Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanation…
- I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans morally ought to beha…