Best quotes by Frans de Waal on Religion

Checkout quotes by Frans de Waal on Religion

  • The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
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  • Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.
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  • Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
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  • I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.
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  • Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.
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  • There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.
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