More quotes by Richard Dawkins

"Science is the poetry of reality."
"...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong."
"Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence."
"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."
"It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."