It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhen two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
-
-
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
RICHARD DAWKINS -
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
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.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
In the beginning was simplicity.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINS