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Evolutionary Biologist Inspirational Quotes (793)

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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
Richard Dawkins
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People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.
Richard Dawkins
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If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human and nothing in external nature was alien.
Julian Huxley
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Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it.
E. O. Wilson
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Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. Once this new evolution begins, it will in no necessary sense be subservient to the old.
Richard Dawkins
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
Richard Dawkins
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Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Stephen Jay Gould
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It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as do as you would be done by.
Richard Dawkins
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. Wilson
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If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.
Richard Dawkins
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Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
Richard Dawkins
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Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.
Richard Dawkins
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Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.
Julian Huxley
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Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
Richard Dawkins
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The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.
E. O. Wilson
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The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Richard Dawkins
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If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.
Richard Dawkins
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Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.
Julian Huxley
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Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.
Stephen Jay Gould
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The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.
Richard Dawkins
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
E. O. Wilson
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The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction.
Richard Dawkins
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