Numbers Quotes by Richard Dawkins

11 Numbers quotes by Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins often uses data to illustrate life’s complexity. These eleven concise remarks capture his view of numbers as the language of evolution.

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That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the…

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Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have…

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I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

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“organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a…

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The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large…

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I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human…

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In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from…

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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists…

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Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and…

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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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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are…

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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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“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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