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Richard Dawkins Quotes
«I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
against, religion, Religions of the world, satisfied, teaches, understanding
«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?»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Fairies
| Keywords:
agnostic, agnostics, at the bottom, bottom, evidence, Fairies, prove, respect to, The Bottom, The Garden, with respect to
«Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.»
«Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on it's own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.»
«The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Evolution
| Keywords:
complexity, cumulative, evolution, explaining, in principle, natural selection, selection, selections, theory of, theory of evolution
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Compassion,
Conscience,
Creativity,
Discovery,
Evolution,
Existence,
Experience,
Exploration,
Goodness,
Gratitude,
Happiness,
Knowledge,
Learning,
Life,
Mankind,
Meditation,
Mortality,
Nature,
Opportunity,
Perception,
Perspective,
Philosophy,
Responsibility,
Truth,
Wisdom
«What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?»
«God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture»
«The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| Keywords:
Blind Faith, discouraging, expedient, Expedients, inquiry, perpetuation, rational, secures, unconscious
«Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| Keywords:
championship, championships, chess, computer program, program, The Championship