"People like to trace their ancestry." — Richard Dawkins
"People like to trace their ancestry."
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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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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 Ancestry Quotes
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was…
— Octavia Butler
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When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German…
— Nicolas Cage
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest…
— August Weismann
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Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins,…
— Jacques Monod
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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and…
— Lynn Margulis
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Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.
— William Tyler
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I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all…
— Cathy Freeman
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And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world,…
— Alan Keyes
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
— Alex Haley
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I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
— Maya Rudolph
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For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that…
— John F. Kerry
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If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob…
— Clifford D. Simak
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