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Richard Dawkins Inspirational Quotes (436)

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Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.
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Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.
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I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
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The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.
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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
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The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang would not have occurred in the fashion that was necessary for life to occur. When you look at that evidence, it is very difficult to adopt the view that this was just chance.
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I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on mine!
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Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Faith is not the opposite of reason.
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Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large the mundane world of the familiar.
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[Richard Leakey is] a robust hero of a man, who actually lives up to the cliché, “a big man in every sense of the word.” Like other big men he is loved by many, feared by some, and not over-preoccupied with the judgments of any.
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else.
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At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
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If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
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In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.
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It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe
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There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think that does need a Darwinian explanation.
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To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.
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Evolution never looks to the future.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance.
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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
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If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.
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