Wonder Quotes by Richard Dawkins

13 Wonder quotes by Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins brings his evolutionary lens to the idea of wonder, turning curiosity into a celebration of the natural world. These thirteen short passages are a solid starter for anyone curious about the science behind awe.

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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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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and…

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All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

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Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking…

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Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was…

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We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You…

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“In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone,…

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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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More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6…

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With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are…

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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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Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing…

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There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those…

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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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