Richard Dawkins
Quotations
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“I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality – you’re told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.” -Richard Dawkins
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“If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.” -Richard Dawkins
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“The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.” -Richard Dawkins
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“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.” -Richard Dawkins
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“We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us – through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology – that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.” -Richard Dawkins
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“I’m not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Isn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?” -Richard Dawkins
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“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?” -Richard Dawkins
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“It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.” -Richard Dawkins
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“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ’s followers seem to disagree.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.” -Richard Dawkins
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“I’m not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.” -Richard Dawkins
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“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn’t put too much emphasis on the word ‘just.’ There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.” -Richard Dawkins
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“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.” -Richard Dawkins
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“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Evolution never looks to the future.” -Richard Dawkins
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“By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” -Richard Dawkins
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“At least the fundamentalists haven’t tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.” -Richard Dawkins
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“But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Segregation has no place in the education system.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.” -Richard Dawkins
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“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn’t put too much emphasis on the word ‘just.’ There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.” -Richard Dawkins
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I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13. – Richard Dawkins
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