Best Richard Dawkins Sayings
- Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances… Atheism
- I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… Add
- Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. Along
- Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind… Anyone
- It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply… Any
- Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we… Anthropic
- The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance… Alternative
- We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it… Astrology
- Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like… Aesthetic
- Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins. Alchemy
- As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and… Actively
- Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had… All
- Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops. Death
- There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out. Brain
- ...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the… Any
- Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception.… Brain
- I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism… Along
- I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion… Belive
- I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it.… Believe
- Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are… Believe
- The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues Bones
- Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind Blind
- What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they… Becomes
- It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe Believe
- The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also… Advantage
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