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Richard Dawkins - From the Aging category:
- Unweaving the Rainbow...
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. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of the Sahara. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Beauty category:
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Belief category:
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Books category:
The book is true, and if evidence seems to contradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out, not the book. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Character category:
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)
Richard Dawkins - From the Children category:
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Children category:
Teach your children how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you... The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Choices category:
Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Complaining category:
However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place? (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Complexity category:
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Culture category:
- The God Delusion...
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Determination category:
I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Evolution category:
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Future category:
Evolution never looks to the future. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Generosity category:
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)
Richard Dawkins - From the Habit category:
My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn (or Mad Hatter) principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Humanity category:
We are a very, very unusual species. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Imagination category:
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Impossibilities category:
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Individuality category:
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Information category:
What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Intellect category:
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Knowledge category:
You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect, yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Life category:
If you believe this is the only life you're going to get, it's a precious life. We should live to the full. Where if you believe in another life, you don't live this life to the full because you think you're going to get another one. That's an awfully negative way to live a life. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Magic category:
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Mysteries category:
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Opposites category:
When 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. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Philosophy category:
I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Poetry category:
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Problems category:
-The God Delusion...
If you don't understand how something
works, never mind: just give up and say God did it... You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent!... Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Production category:
The chicken is only an egg's way for making another egg. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Questions category:
I think that when you've got a big brain... big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from? (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Religion category:
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Religion category:
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Religion category:
-The God Delusion...
Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking
after himself. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Seeing category:
What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Simplicity category:
-The Selfish Gene...
In the beginning was simplicity. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Technology category:
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Tyranny category:
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Universe category:
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Wonder category:
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)
Richard Dawkins - From the Words category:
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. (Richard Dawkins)
Richard Dawkins - From the Words category:
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull,' and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world.' And the world is anything but dull. (Richard Dawkins)
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