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Means Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- 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,…
- Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant…
- 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.…
- A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because…
- By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
- By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The…
- We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution…
- If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life.…
- Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.
More Means Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange