Richard Dawkins quotes - page 18

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed. (Richard Dawkins)

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

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To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

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Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.

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There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

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All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

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I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. (Richard Dawkins)

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'

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The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

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You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

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I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

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Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on it's own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.

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Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

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What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

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Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.

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I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

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I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music. (Richard Dawkins)

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

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It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

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I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

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I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

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Occupation: English Scientist
Born: March 26, 1941
Quotes count: 475
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