Than Quotes by Richard Dawkins

11 Than quotes by Richard Dawkins

Dawkins often frames ideas through sharp contrasts, and these eleven excerpts that include ‘than’ illustrate that habit. They give a brief window into his logical, sometimes provocative, way of weighing concepts.

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Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

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A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

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I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.

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There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that…

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If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions…

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Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical…

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Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but…

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I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots…

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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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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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The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to…

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