Richard Dawkins best Courage Quotes – “Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing – a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.”
Richard Dawkins best Computers Quotes – “The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.”
Richard Dawkins best Computers Quotes – “Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.”
Richard Dawkins best Communication Quotes – “I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you’re being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they’re not exactly right.”
Richard Dawkins best Communication Quotes – “We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don’t have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.”
Richard Dawkins best Faith Quotes – “Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.”
Richard Dawkins best Faith Quotes – “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.”
Richard Dawkins best Faith Quotes – “If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.”
Richard Dawkins best Faith Quotes – “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 best Faith Quotes – “The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”
Richard Dawkins best Education Quotes – “Segregation has no place in the education system.”
Richard Dawkins best Design Quotes – “Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.”
Richard Dawkins best Design Quotes – “People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.”
Richard Dawkins best Design Quotes – “The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.”
Richard Dawkins best Death Quotes – “Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.”