Humans Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

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Human beings are just gene machines.

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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is…

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Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

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Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

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It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

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We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

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Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

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With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an…

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Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them…

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Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive…

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The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of…

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The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in…

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Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's…

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The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an…

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The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on…

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Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human…

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Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably…

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My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and…

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Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys…

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For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos…

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I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an…

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Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you…

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There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too…

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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,…

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That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of…

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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have…

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There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or…

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I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout -…

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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…

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There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And…

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Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense,…

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Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that…

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If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by…

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Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can…

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Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where…

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Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains?…

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Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value…

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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…

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I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read…

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