Richard Dawkins Quotes - Page 21

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• [Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in God's creative power in having brought it all into being in the first place, I find that studying the natural world is an opportunity to observe the majesty, the elegance, the intricacy of God's creation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Wall, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: inters.org

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• In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

  Richard Dawkins

  Party, People, Communist

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Evil, Hanging Out

  Source: inters.org

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• I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Magic, Exception

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to be, and it teaches them that the other religion is the wrong one.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Doe, Passionate

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. March 7, 2010.

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• We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lust, Brain, Matter

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same, but with detail differences - they look like different drafts of the same book. In extreme cases, like a human and a beetroot, it's like the difference between Matthew and Luke's Gospel - clearly they tell the same story, but with different words. Whereas with a human and a chimp, it's like two different printings of Matthew, with a few typos in one.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Two, Differences

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Nice, Fall

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I would challenge the statement that my scientific instincts are any less rigorous than [Richard Dawkins]. The difference is that my presumption of the possibility of God and therefore the supernatural is not zero, and yours is.

  Richard Dawkins

  Zero, Differences, Challenges

  Source: inters.org

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• Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false morality that vanishes as soon as the police go on strike or the spy camera is switched off, whether the spy camera is a real one monitored in the police station or an imaginary one in heaven.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Thoughtful, People

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be explained.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Worry, Way

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• …the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, African Tribes, Special

  Richard Dawkins (1991). “The blind watchmaker”

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• If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to
  look.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Want, Looks

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.252, Oxford University Press

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• If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Want, Way

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Free Will, Biology

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• Public sharing is an important part of science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Important

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• The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Successful, Design

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• I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for working on the Sabbath or switching on a light on the Sabbath. So the point is that you can find good bits of the Bible but you have to cherry-pick, you have reject the nasty bits and pick the nice bits.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Light, People

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation. If you think about it, before Darwin, we hadn't the foggiest idea of how we came into being. Now we do. It's still such an exciting idea that it is well worth everybody understanding it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  World, Details, Culture

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doe, Morality

  Source: inters.org

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• Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide bombs. We are very gentle people. All we do is use words to talk about things like the cosmos, the origin of the universe, evolution, the origin of life. What's there to be frightened of? It's just an opinion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Suicide, Mean, Origin Of Life

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• The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Evil, Purpose

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Arguing, Discrimination, Intolerance

  "What is the proper place for religion in Britain's public life?" by Will Hutton, Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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• I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Order, Religion, Littles

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