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

— Richard Dawkins, book The God Delusion

Heart Of The Matter: God Under The Microscope | BBC (1996)
Variant: [... ] one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
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