Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

"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."
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"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
"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
"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
"We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster."
Richard Dawkins
"Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs."
Richard Dawkins
"The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun."
Richard Dawkins
"It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself."
Richard Dawkins
"God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture."
Richard Dawkins
"I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history."
Richard Dawkins
"If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed."
Richard Dawkins
"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
"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."
Richard Dawkins
"Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that."
Richard Dawkins
"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
"The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't."
Richard Dawkins
"You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions."
Richard Dawkins
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
Richard Dawkins
"Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam."
Richard Dawkins
"I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things."
Richard Dawkins
"I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence."
Richard Dawkins
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