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Long 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…
- [Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new…
- The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really…
- The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in…
- Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations…
- The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.
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