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Own Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand…
- The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also…
- 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…
- I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness…
- 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…
- 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…
- Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths…
- The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
- Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
- Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
- I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into…
- Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As…
- There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not…
- Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because…
- The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle.…
- Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved. Darwin and Wallace…
- Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
- Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives…
- We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- 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
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov