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Take Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- 'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
- Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this kind…
- We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it…
- Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.
- Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.
- The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give…
- 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…
- Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that…
- 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 take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real,…
- 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…
- My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly…
- If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room…
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