Richard Dawkins Whether they conflict or cooperate will depend not on their historical origins but on the circumstances from which they stand to gain now.”, “Not every English sentence beginning with the word "why" is a legitimate question.”, “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.”, “Any effect that a meme has on the behaviour of a body bearing it may influence that meme’s chance of surviving.”, “The placebo effect is well documented and not even very mysterious.
The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. ― Richard Dawkins, quote from The God Delusion “Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.” “I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television? “Do not indoctrinate your children. Some of us just go one god further.”, “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”, “There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”, “More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”, “Do not indoctrinate your children. Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. ― Richard Dawkins, quote from The God Delusion, “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.” Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal.
In fact they do.”, “Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends, George Bernard Shaw (1993). One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.”, “We live on a planet where we are surrounded by perhaps ten million species, each one of which independently displays a powerful illusion of apparent design.
Refresh and try again. The God Delusion - Kindle edition by Dawkins, Richard. The Dawkins Delusion? more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become 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.”, “There's real poetry in the real world. Fitness is just a way of talking about the survival of replicators, in this case genetic replicators. “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult. ― Richard Dawkins, quote from The God Delusion, “There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.” It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”, “Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”, “Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.”, “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. There’s real poetry in the real world. But when there is a systematic increase or decrease in the frequency with which we see a particular gene in a gene pool, that is precisely and exactly what we mean by evolution.”, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: ‘When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Be the first to learn about new releases! There is no law giving it priority as the fundamental quantity that is maximized.
Welcome back. Book by Richard Dawkins, October 2, 2006. “As a concerned American colleague writes to me: “There he coined the acronym NOMA for the phrase ‘non-overlapping magisteria’:”, “Anybody can grow a bone in the penis; you don't have to be particularly healthy or tough.”, “Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence?
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