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Richard Dawkins Quotes

Richard Dawkins quotes

English Scientist, Writer March 26, 1941

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A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to mix the two together. According to the above, they will explode in my face. Here goes...Well... I'm still here! I poured the hydrogen peroxide into the hydroquinone, and absolutely nothing happened. It didn't event get warm! Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins quote: "I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000..."
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked. Richard Dawkins
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth... Richard Dawkins
Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation. Richard Dawkins
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. Richard Dawkins
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Richard Dawkins
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins quote: "The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the..."
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins quote: "It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future..."
It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes. Richard Dawkins
More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago in what was then fresh volcanic ash. Who does not wonder what these individuals were to each other, whether they held hands or even talked, and what forgotten errand they shared in a Pliocene dawn? Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins quote: "There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry..."
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins quote: "Braininess is attractive"
Braininess is attractive Richard Dawkins
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity. Richard Dawkins
It has become almost a clich to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins quote: "Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may..."
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. Richard Dawkins

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