"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
― Richard Dawkins
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Faith
More From Richard Dawkins
- "Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."
- "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
- "Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know."
More In Faith
- "In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith."― J. William Fulbright
- "Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong."― Ricky Martin
- "Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other’s eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire."― Maggie Gallagher