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Wells Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks…
- You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to…
- Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely…
- I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless.…
- In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
- I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion…
- Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we…
- The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also…
- There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life,…
- Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.
- If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and…
- People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have…
- There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn…
- To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas…
- 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…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong