Richard Dawkins on diversity
Richard Dawkins104 quotes“I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.”
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Richard DawkinsRichard 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 DawkinsRichard Dawkins Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn’t ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.
Meghan MarkleMeghan Markle The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
George TakeiGeorge Takei We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.
George TakeiGeorge Takei By this the Earth it self, which lyes so near us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and in every little particle of its matter, we now behold almost as great a variety of Creatures, as we were able before to reckon up in the Whole Universe itself.”
Robert HookeRobert Hooke I truly believe that diversity is so important, and I hope that I can use my platform to encourage and inspire other aspiring female artists.
Madison BeerMadison Beer A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
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