More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied wi… - Richard Dawkins

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

What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding the world they live in.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding the world they live in.

And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.