Website review: Positive Atheisms Big List of Richa...
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Necropolice rated 8 weeks ago- Great collection of quotes from Dawkins.
- zwsnipboy rated 6 months ago
- After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings. To put it the other way round, isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of it?
-- Richard Dawkins, excerpt from Chapter I, "The Anaesthetic of Familiarity," of Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998)
I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of the evil in the world. Others, less close to her, showed no such scruples, which upset me, as I very much wanted her, as I want all children, to make up her own mind freely when she became old enough to do so. I would encourage her to think, without telling her what to think.
-- Richard Dawkins, in a letter to his daughter, The Devil's Chaplain (2004)
I suspect the
reason is that most people ... have a residue of feeling that Darwinian
evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about life. All
I can say as a biologist is that the feeling disappears progressively
the more you read about and study what is known about life and
evolution. I want to add one thing more. The more you understand the
significance of evolution, the more you are pushed away from the
agnostic position and towards atheism. Complex, statistically
improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than
simple, statistically probable things.
-- Richard Dawkins, from The New Humanist, the Journal of the Rationalist Press Association, Vol 107 No 2
- After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings. To put it the other way round, isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of it?
- SketchSepahi rated 10 months ago
- A collection of memorable Richard Dawkins quotes. Good as a reference for atheists and theists alike.
- ZenSaohu rated 10 months ago
- From the page: "Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next."
- docrivs rated 12 months ago
- From the page: "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. -- Richard Dawkins (attributed: source unknown)"
- pachonegro rated 16 months ago
- What should be taught in school,this country would not be still in the Dark Ages
- sshhameless1 rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. -- Richard Dawkins "
- PizzaRico rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. -- Richard Dawkins"
- Tricky-Dick rated 16 months ago
- A great mind that is truly wasted on arguing with people who simply have no interest in acknowledging the logical explanations of the universe.
