Modern Quotes by Richard Dawkins

10 Modern quotes by Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins contributes ten concise statements about the modern world, distilling his scientific perspective into bite‑size reflections on progress and belief.

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Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

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Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to…

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Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out…

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What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any…

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Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic…

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I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy…

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I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern…

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Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been…

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Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so…

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I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as…

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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 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 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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