"Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as……" — Richard Dawkins
"Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance."
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Richard Dawkins
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins has 530 quotes on this site.
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens…
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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More Aggravates Quotes
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
— Seneca the Younger
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Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and…
— Baron d'Holbach
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
— Henry Fielding
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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time....
— Mark Twain
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Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful…
— Lydia Sigourney
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War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore…
— C.S. Lewis
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Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed.
— Charles Horace Mayo
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No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.
— Pranab Mukherjee
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I know I'm breaking a taboo by using the term antiwhite racism, but I do so intentionally, because it's the…
— Jean-Francois Cope
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There is no greater block to world peace or inner peace than fear. What we fear we tend to develop…
— Peace Pilgrim
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It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to…
— Harper Lee
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The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.
— Dennis Lehane
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