I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
Quote by Richard Dawkins
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I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
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Richard Dawkins Quotes
- The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
- Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
- One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
- We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- It has become almost a cliche 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.
- We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
- The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
- The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
- Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
- I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
Best Quotes
- The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
- Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
- It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
- If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
- I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
- Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- I've lost my faith in science.
- Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.
- Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
- If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.