English - Scientist | March 26, 1941 -
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
Richard Dawkins
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If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
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It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
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If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.
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What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
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I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.
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When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
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Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.
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I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.
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