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Sense Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
- 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…
- Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' implies…
- There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that…
- Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic…
- Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, .. Evolution…
- 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…
- So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak…
- I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an…
- The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle.…
- I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those…
- There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can…
- Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated…
- What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to…
More Sense 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
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- 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
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen 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
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden