Doctor Quotes by Richard Dawkins

9 Doctor quotes by Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins brings his evolutionary curiosity to the medical field, and these nine brief statements highlight his rational take on healers. They serve as a quick, thought‑provoking look at science and medicine.

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It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on…

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I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at…

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If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply,…

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Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

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I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and…

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If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will…

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[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

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Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something that planets actually do, what influence could they possibly have…

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Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in…

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At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

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The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

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We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

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“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…

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“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…

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Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

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“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,…

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The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…

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The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,…

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