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Needs Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.…
- In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
- Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...
- 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…
- 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…
- Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it…
- Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but…
- Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable…
- Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a Marxist child or an Anarchist child or a Post-modernist child. Yet children are routinely labelled with…
- Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps…
- The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught…
- Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
- Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does…
- Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item…
- And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will…
- I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I…
- Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a…
- The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison.…
- 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.
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — 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
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. — Desi Arnaz