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Would Be Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion.…
- 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…
- 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 alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo…
- Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had…
- If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such…
- Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it…
- I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.
- A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter…
- It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur…
- It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
- The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so…
- 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…
- Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first…
- If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change…
- There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is…
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius