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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
Born: Mar 26, 1941
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Related authors: Ashley Montagu Charles Darwin Edward Jenner Erasmus Darwin Jacob Bronowski Jane Goodall Matthew Walker Thomas Huxley
Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection. Richard Dawkins
Three Hair Big Lose Think I Think Sexual Selection Develop Answer Brains Questions Walking Did Legs Body Why Start Humans
I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning. Richard Dawkins
You People Too Much Too Say Destroy Magic Understand Encourage Questioning Childhood Skeptical Much They Say
Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him. Richard Dawkins
Everybody Benign Supervisor He Him Sort Influence Loved
To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. Richard Dawkins
Political Opportunities Those Put Simultaneously Intelligent American Against Who Loaded Honest
I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person. Richard Dawkins
Made Out Never Sort Been Person Quite Mild Actually
Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status. Richard Dawkins
Status Charitable Religious Automatic Organisations
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection. Richard Dawkins
Natural Universe Other Worlds Elsewhere Would Laws Selection Governed Same Natural Selection Conjecture
Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence. Richard Dawkins
Love Knowledge Intelligence Big Nothing Creation Add Would Exact About More Outside Know Course Big Bang Does Still Bang Moment
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. Richard Dawkins
Decision Bit Drift More More Or Less Scientist Really Less Default
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories. Richard Dawkins
Great Memories Courage People Face Victim Every Bit Easy Seem Entirely Spiteful True How Real Demonstrating False Vested Vested Interests Psychologist Which Interests Shown Elizabeth
From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again. Richard Dawkins
You Yourself Perspective Pain Live Darwinian Never Pick Clear Doing Up Going Burn Again Warning Coal
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically. Richard Dawkins
Sit Bishops House Lords Automatically
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret. Richard Dawkins
Love Time You Memory Regret Reflection Somebody Bereavement Terrible Course Dies
Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god. Richard Dawkins
God Ideas Personal Einstein Rejecting Adamant
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place. Richard Dawkins
World First Ancestors Bereft Spiders Would-Be Never Supplied Well First Place Male Mating Died After Place Whose
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked. Richard Dawkins
World Old Stupid Wicked Once Insane Only Wrote Years Anybody Either Ignorant Who Believes
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. Richard Dawkins
Christmas November White Nowadays Too Spending Seems Detest Obscene Red Occupy October December Just Much Bells
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do. Richard Dawkins
Exult Stay Something Gives Mysterious Mystery Scientists Different Want Them Reason
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without. Richard Dawkins
Universe Kind Would Would-Be Totally Without Scientifically Than Different Different Kind Speaking Creator
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor. Richard Dawkins
Good You Doctor Think Medicine Meeting Nursing I Think About Insistence Rather Mentality Sort Hear Than Just Being Teaching Standards Profession Prescribed
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales. Richard Dawkins
Think Magic About Tales Know Fairy Fairy Tales
There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story. Richard Dawkins
You Every See About Hysteria Clearly Scientific Lot Story
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside. Richard Dawkins
Feeling Nice Universe Consolation Inside Owe Warm Us
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views. Richard Dawkins
Imposition Persuasion Views
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know. Richard Dawkins
Science Doubt Evolution About Open Know Course Does Discussed Anything Certain Among Things Need
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. Richard Dawkins
God Important Think I Think Supernatural Most Scientific Answer Question Exists The Most Important Whether Creator
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