Richard Dawkins Quotes (293 quotes)

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„We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing in 20 years' time there will be no rainforests left, just to use one example. Looking into the future may be one of the reasons that brains evolved in the first place.“
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„The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.“
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„In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.“
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„I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.“
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„I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down, and not at a cost in getting things right.“
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„I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt.“
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„Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.“
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„You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'“
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„We have the power to turn against our creators.“
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„There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.“
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„People like to trace their ancestry.“
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„Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.“
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„It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.“
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„In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.“
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„I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.“
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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.“
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„George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.“
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„Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.“
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„Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.“
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„I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.“
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Richard Dawkins
Author born: March 26, 1941
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Scientist

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