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Human Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way…
- We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
- Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.
- It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe
- With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig,
- The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than…
- There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.
- The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward…
- There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that…
- Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.
- The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
- When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great…
- God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex…
- 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…
- Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the…
- Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the…
- Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
- My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly…
- An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet…
- The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
- When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
- Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
- I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the…
- What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong