"Humans are just a very, very small part……" — Richard Dawkins
"Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection."
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
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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 Arguable Quotes
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There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in…
— David Attenborough
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
— Winston Churchill
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It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from…
— Alex Carey
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My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build…
— Peter Greenaway
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Is there a better wrestling villain on TV these days than CM Punk? Arguable question but for my sauce, Punk…
— Jim Ross
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It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's…
— Martin Amis
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Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free…
— W. Arthur Lewis
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