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Capable Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- [It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
- A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand…
- Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we…
- Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's…
- A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to…
- The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.
- The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
- The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of…
- The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is…
- A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be,…
- Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
- It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process -…
- Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under…
- Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
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- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we… — Michelle Bachelet
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. — Douglas Adams
- In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man;… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. — Joseph Addison
- If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart… — Joseph Addison
- Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. — Aphra Behn
- If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office,… — Pope Benedict XVI
- I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government… — Tony Blair
- People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool… — David Bohm