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Understand Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
- 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…
- 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.…
- The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which…
- Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been deeply mysterious and…
- 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…
- If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves…
- 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 world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
- 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…
- Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security…
- What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words,…
- If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works?…
- Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
- I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
More Understand Quotes
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila