38 quotes by Richard Dawkins

“Evolution never looks to the future.” — Richard Dawkins

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“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.” — 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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“For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.” — Richard Dawkins

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“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.” — 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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“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.” — 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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“Segregation has no place in the education system.” — 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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“The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.” — 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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“I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.” — 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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“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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“The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.” — Richard Dawkins

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“I love romantic poetry.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.” — Richard Dawkins

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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” — 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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“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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“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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“It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.” — 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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“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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