Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
RICHARD DAWKINSSometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
RICHARD DAWKINSThere’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
RICHARD DAWKINSIn the beginning was simplicity.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe 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 DAWKINSThe important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
RICHARD DAWKINSPerhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
RICHARD DAWKINSI 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 DAWKINSFaith 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 DAWKINSEvolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
RICHARD DAWKINSCreationists 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 DAWKINSEvolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
RICHARD DAWKINS