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Life Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.
- But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not…
- We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for.…
- There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never…
- Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.…
- I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind
- There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life,…
- It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very,…
- Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in…
- Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
- After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.
- Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to…
- No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means.…
- Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W.…
- What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking…
- 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 essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
- Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
- The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so…
- There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by…
- Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
- After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — 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
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle