Richard Dawkins Quotes (81 quotes)

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„I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.“
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„Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.“
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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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„What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.“
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„I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.“
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„Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.“
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„I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.“
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„If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.“
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„Beauty arises out of human inspiration.“
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„I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.“
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„It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.“
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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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„Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots.“
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„Segregation has no place in the education system.“
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„The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.“
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„My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.“
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„A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.“
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„You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.“
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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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„When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.“
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Richard Dawkins
Author born: March 26, 1941
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Scientist

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