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Quite Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- 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…
- 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…
- It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply…
- I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion…
- Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case,…
- Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.
- A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound…
- I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to…
- The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is…
- We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to…
- I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is…
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