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Reason Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
- We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for.…
- 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…
- The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.
- 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…
- Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception.…
- I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it.…
- Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have…
- Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
- The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to…
- The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
- Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
- Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have…
- Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists…
- Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid…
- There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that,…
- Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
- The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground…
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough