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Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Richard Dawkins

Nature, Learning, Science

Richard Dawkins (1995). “River out of eden: a Darwinian view of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Richard Dawkins

Death, Atheist, Learning

"The Two Types of Faith" by Greg Cootsona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2016.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Richard Dawkins

Respect, Atheist, Learning

Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.