Richard Dawkins Quotes

• Segregation has no place in the education system.

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• Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

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• If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

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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.

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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.

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• I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

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• I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like ‘Catholic children’ or ‘Protestant children’ or ‘Islamic children.’

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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.

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• Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private ‘revelation’.

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• Natural selection is anything but random.

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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.

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• My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

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• A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Life, Nature

  Tags in School, Understanding, Meaning

• A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

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  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Scientific, Universe, Look

• 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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  Tags in Winning, Personally, Need, Look

• 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.

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• We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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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

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Culture, Human, Important

• 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

  Topics in History

  Tags in Wonder, Separate, School, Perhaps, Thinking

Richard Dawkins (94)

Birth:	26th March, 1941
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Ethologist, Professor, Writer

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Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.

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