Richard Dawkins citations célèbres
Pour en finir avec Dieu (The God Delusion), 2006
S'ils ne sont pas extrémistes en soi, les enseignements de la religion « modérée » sont une invitation ouverte à l'extrémisme.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
Les Mystères de l'arc-en-ciel (Unweaving the Rainbow), 1998
Richard Dawkins: Citations en anglais
Source: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
"Time to Stand Up"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Duke University, 01/03/2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcOoqxuroI&t=54m51s
The Magic Of Reality (2012)
Source: The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Contexte: Don’t ever be lazy enough, defeatist enough, cowardly enough to say “I don't understand it so it must be a miracle - it must be supernatural - God did it”. Say instead, that it’s a puzzle, it’s strange, it’s a challenge that we should rise to. Whether we rise to the challenge by questioning the truth of the observation, or by expanding our science in new and exciting directions - the proper and brave response to any such challenge is to tackle it head-on. And until we've found a proper answer to the mystery, it's perfectly ok simply to say “this is something we don't yet understand - but we're working on it”. It's the only honest thing to do. Miracles, magic and myths, they can be fun. Everybody likes a good story. Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth. The real truth has a magic of its own. The truth is more magical, in the best and most exciting sense of the word, than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic - the magic of reality.
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.”
Source: The Selfish Gene
“We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”
Source: The Selfish Gene
Part 2, 00:13:55
Part 2: "The Virus of Faith", quoted at "The Proper Study of Mankind" blog http://psom.blogspot.com/2006/01/root-of-all-evil-part-2-virus-of-faith.html on January 25, 2006
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)
In an interview to The Times — Richard Dawkins: Atheist academic calls for religion 'to be offended at every opportunity' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/richard-dawkins-atheist-academic-calls-for-religion-to-be-offended-at-every-opportunity-a7043226.html (23 May 2016)
“There has been progress in design, but not progress in accomplishment.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 186)
“Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly ‘tracks’ the changing environment.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 179)
“Contrary to earlier prejudices, there is nothing inherently progressive about evolution.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 178)
“What expertise can theologians bring to deep cosmological questions that scientists cannot?”
Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 79
