"If ever there was a slamming of the……" — Richard Dawkins
"If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle."
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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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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to…
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You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one…
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Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really…
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But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of…
— Richard M. Nixon
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International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point,…
— J. William Fulbright
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Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there…
— Unknown Author
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My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within,…
— Edgar Cayce
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What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the…
— Albert Einstein
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Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever…
— Dan Millman
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... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves…
— Hans Zinsser
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In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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