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Richard Dawkins
English
Scientist
Born:
Mar 26
,
1941
About
People
Religion
Science
Think
You
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There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving - she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, 'What if you are wrong?' and I answered that rather briefly, and that's gone viral.
Richard Dawkins
Me
You
Woman
Liberty
Giving
Young
Gone
YouTube
Think
Viral
I Think
Religious
Rather
Wrong
Institution
She
Said
Answered
Came
Lecture
Lot
What If
Quite
Quite A Lot
Which
Young Woman
Ludicrous
University
The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than others, because people like them, because they're popular, because they're catchy or whatever it might be.
Richard Dawkins
People
Whatever
Others
Kind
Memes
Would
Would-Be
Some
Darwinian
More
Selection
Catchy
Like
Likely
Because
Spread
Question
Than
Whereby
Process
Whether
Interesting
Them
Might
Popular
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
Richard Dawkins
Day
Big
One Day
Solve
Physicists
Big Bang
Bang
May
Working
The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
Richard Dawkins
Bible
Written
Fallible
Human
Human Beings
Beings
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.
Richard Dawkins
Faith
Science
Physics
Better
Example
Physicists
Could
Suppose
For Example
Understand
Said
Branches
Than
Which
It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.
Richard Dawkins
Good
You
Science
Criticism
Thrive
Medicine
Possible
Rather
Instead
Stifling
Encouraging
Than
Intend
Even
Actively
Why
Harm
There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.
Richard Dawkins
People
Religious
Educated
Educated People
Very
Creationist
Who
Many
The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.
Richard Dawkins
About
Feminists
Taught
Us
Placebos work.
Richard Dawkins
Work
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.
Richard Dawkins
Faith
Good
People
Believe
Enough
Exam
Results
Foolish
Schools
Because
Get
Send
Children
Want
Many
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.
Richard Dawkins
Technology
Culture
Space
Important
Stage
Our
Extremely
Through
Because
Brains
May
Proceed
Manifestation
Us
Next
Explosion
Deep
Deep Space
Bomb
Humans
Symbolic
I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?
Richard Dawkins
You
Yourself
World
Mysteries
Big
Fall
Think
Thinking
Universe
Enough
Everything
I Think
Find
See
About
Come
Around
Understand
Does
Got
Big Enough
Brain
Lot
Quite
Quite A Lot
Where
Mean
Naturally
Planted
Deep
It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.
Richard Dawkins
Hurt
People
Light
Comedy
Made
Feeling
Out
Religious
Religious People
Get
Vilified
Actually
Fundamentalist
Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.
Richard Dawkins
God
Atheist
Tooth
Tooth Fairy
Mine
Say
Says
About
Rather
He
Likely
Fairy
Friend
Than
Meaning
Agnostic
Disprove
Thinks
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.
Richard Dawkins
Life
Great
You
Impossible
Practice
Odds
Out
Would
Would-Be
Find
Finding
Indistinguishable
Task
Spaceship
Against
Galaxy
Planet
Your
Set
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Richard Dawkins
Great
Word
Too Much
Great Deal
Beauty
Too
Indeed
Say
Machine
Machines
Complication
Gene
Put
Emphasis
Deal
Very
Human
Just
Being
Human Beings
Much
Beings
In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.
Richard Dawkins
Faith
People
World
Country
Too
Other
Able
Wrong
Perfectly
Like
Because
Without
Opinions
Were
Shoot
Just
Just Because
Asking
Wars
Ever
Belonged
World Wars
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.
Richard Dawkins
God
Book
People
Aggressive
Think
Humorous
I Think
Laughs
Delusion
Polarizing
Like
Read
Very
Often
Just
Full
Who
Describe
Actually
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
Richard Dawkins
Religion
Science
Marriage
Judge
Alleged
Shallow
Sham
Between
Empty
Honest
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
Richard Dawkins
Religion
Argument
Settled
Those
Out
Disagreements
Between
Because
Trained
Cradle
Cannot
Beliefs
Incompatible
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.
Richard Dawkins
War
Future
Hussein
Invasion
Could
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Era
Provided
Kuwait
Historians
Subsequent
Current
Irreplaceable
Sanctions
Help
I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.
Richard Dawkins
Family
Knowledge
History
Natural
Parents
Country
Valued
Constantly
Brought
Both
Both My Parents
Knew
Names
Sort
Up
Walking
Being
Which
Natural History
Exposed
British
Segregation has no place in the education system.
Richard Dawkins
Education
System
Segregation
Place
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins
History
Appreciation
Science
Experience
Rest
Thinking
Ways
Classes
Rather
Could
Perhaps
Ideas
Scientific
Wonder
Laboratory
Than
The History Of
Us
Separate
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.
Richard Dawkins
Thoughts
Feelings
Brain
Going
Rot
Beliefs
Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
Richard Dawkins
Beauty
Out
Inspiration
Arises
Human
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