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“Le Dieu des déistes est sûrement un progrès par rapport au monstre de la Bible. Malheureusement il n'y a pas beaucoup plus de chances qu'il existe, ou qu'il ait jamais existé. Dans l'une ou l'autre de ses formes, l'hypothèse de Dieu est inutile.”

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), 2006

“N'est-ce pas toujours une forme de maltraitance des enfants que de leur accoler des étiquettes de croyance auxquelles ils n'ont pas réfléchi parce qu'ils sont trop jeunes? Pourtant, cette habitude persiste encore à ce jour, et elle n'est pratiquement jamais remise en question. […] Notre société, y compris le secteur non religieux, a admis l'idée grotesque qu'il est bien normal d'endoctriner les tout petits enfants dans la religion de leurs parents et de leur coller des étiquettes religieuse - « enfant catholique », « enfant protestant », « enfant juif », « enfant musulman », etc. - mais pas des étiquettes d'un autre ordre, pourtant comparables : pas d'enfants conservateurs, libéraux, républicains ou démocrates. […] Un enfant n'est pas un enfant chrétien, ce n'est pas un enfant musulman, mais un enfant de parents chrétiens ou un enfant de parents musulmans.”

Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

Pour en finir avec Dieu (The God Delusion), 2006

“Aussi longtemps que nous acceptons le principe que la foi religieuse doit être respectée simplement parce que c'est la foi religieuse, il est difficile de refuser ce respect à la foi d'Ousama ben Laden et des auteurs d'attentats suicides. L'alternative, si évidente qu'il est inutile d'en souligner l'urgence, est d'abandonner le principe du respect automatique de la foi religieuse. C'est une raison pour laquelle je fais l'impossible pour mettre les gens en garde contre la foi elle-même, et pas seulement contre la prétendue foi « extrémiste .»”

Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

S'ils ne sont pas extrémistes en soi, les enseignements de la religion « modérée » sont une invitation ouverte à l'extrémisme.
Pour en finir avec Dieu (The God Delusion), 2006

“La sélection naturelle construit le cerveau de l'enfant en lui donnant une tendance à croire tout ce que lui disent ses parents et les anciens de la tribu. Cette obéissance en toute confiance est précieuse pour la survie au même titre que le guidage sur la lune pour le papillon de nuit. Mais le revers de l'obéissance en toute confiance est la crédulité aveugle. Son produit dérivé inévitable est la vulnérabilité aux infections par les virus de l'esprit.”

Richard Dawkins

), 2006

“On peut dire que, de toutes les œuvres de fiction, le Dieu de la Bible est le personnage le plus déplaisant : jaloux et fier de l'être, il est impitoyable, injuste et tracassier dans son obsession de tout régenter; adepte du nettoyage ethnique, c'est un revanchard assoiffé de sang; tyran lunatique et malveillant, ce misogyne homophobe, raciste, pestilentiel, mégalomane et sadomasochiste pratique l'infanticide, le génocide et le « filicide .»”

Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

Pour en finir avec Dieu (The God Delusion), 2006

“Imaginez, avec John Lennon, un monde sans religion… Pas de bombes suicides, pas de 11 septembre, pas de croisades, pas de chasses aux sorcières, pas de Conspiration des poudres, pas de partition de l'Inde, pas de guerres israélo-palestiniennes, pas de massacres de musulmans serbo-croates, pas de persécutions de juifs, pas de « troubles » en Irlande du Nord, pas de « crimes d'honneur », pas de télévangélistes au brushing avantageux et au costume tape-à-l'œil. Imaginez, pas de Talibans pour dynamiter les statues anciennes, pas de décapitations publiques des blasphémateurs, pas de femmes flagellées pour avoir montré une infime parcelle de peau…”

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), 2006

“Le panthéisme est de l'athéisme enjolivé, le déisme est du théisme dilué.”

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), 2006

“Nous allons mourir, et cela fait de nous les veinards. La plupart des gens ne mourront jamais parce qu’il ne naîtront jamais. Les personnes potentielles qui auraient pu être là à ma place mais en fait ne verront jamais la lumière du jour sont plus nombreuses que les grains de sable du Sahara. Ces fantômes non nés comprennent certainement des poètes plus grands que Keats, des scientifiques plus grands que Newton. Nous savons cela parce que l’ensemble des personnes possibles permises par notre ADN dépassent si massivement l’ensemble des personnes réelles. En dépit de ces probabilités stupéfiantes c’est vous et moi, dans notre banalité, qui sommes là. Nous les quelques privilégiés qui avons gagné la loterie de la vie contre toutes les probabilités, comment osons-nous nous plaindre de notre inévitable retour à cet état précédent dont la majorité d’entre nous ne s’éveillera jamais?”

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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

“How do we account for the current paranormal vogue in the popular media? Perhaps it has something to do with the millennium – in which case it's depressing to realise that the millennium is still three years away.”

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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)

“evidence is the only good reason to believe anything”

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interview shown in AlJazeera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0jA6VsivBE&t=0h26m04s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0jA6VsivBE&t=0h28m37s

“There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I could easily imagine trying to go against Darwinism.”

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Darwin's Dangerous Disciple: An Interview by Frank Miele (1995)

“Dear Muslima

Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and . . . yawn . . . don't tell me yet again, I know you aren't allowed to drive a car, and you can't leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you'll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with.

Only this week I heard of one, she calls herself Skep"chick", and do you know what happened to her? A man in a hotel elevator invited her back to his room for coffee. I am not exaggerating. He really did. He invited her back to his room for coffee. Of course she said no, and of course he didn't lay a finger on her, but even so . . .

And you, Muslima, think you have misogyny to complain about! For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.

Richard”

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Blog comment, , to PZ Myers, " Always Name Names https://web.archive.org/web/20110706204901/http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/07/always_name_names.php" (), Pharyngula, quoted in Rebecca Watson, " The Privilege Delusion http://skepchick.org/2011/07/the-privilege-delusion/", Skepchick.
Regarding the Rebecca Watson elevator incident.

“Who (apart from the pig) is damaged by bacon?”

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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/480273220659339264 (21 June 2014)
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“But there are many unsophisticated Christians out there … who take the Bible very seriously indeed as a literal and accurate record of history and hence as evidence supporting the religious beliefs. Do these people never open the book that they believe is the literal truth? Why don't they notice the glaring contradictions?”

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Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 120

“Mitochondrial DNA is blessedly celibate. (p.53)”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“Even sticking to the higher plane of love, is it so very obvious that you can't love more than one person? We seem to manage it with parental love (parents are reproached if they don't at least pretend to love all their children equally), love of books, of food, of wine (love of Chateau Margaux does not preclude love of a fine Hock, and we don't feel unfaithful to the red when we dally with the white), love of composers, poets, holiday beaches, friends... why is erotic love the one exception that everybody instantly acknowledges without even thinking about it?”

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Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/richard_dawkins/2007/11/banishing_the_greeneyed_monste.html, November 2007.

“The successful scientist and the raving crank are separated by the quality of their inspirations. But I suspect that this amounts, in practice, to a difference, not so much in ability to notice analogies as in ability to reject foolish analogies and pursue helpful ones.”

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Richard Dawkins livre The Blind Watchmaker

Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 8 “Explosions and Spirals” (pp. 195–196)

“We should be offended when children are denied a proper education. We should be offended when children are told they will spend eternity in hell. We should be offended when medical science, for example stem-cell research, is compromised by the bigoted opinions of powerful and above all well-financed ignoramuses. We should be offended when voodoo, of all kinds, is given equal weight to science. We should be offended by hymen reconstruction surgery. We should be offended by 'female circumcision', euphemism for genital mutilation. We should be offended by stoning.”

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Lecture at UC Berkeley about The God Delusion, 08/03/2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaJelU29jeI&t=49s
Lecture at UC Berkeley (2008)

“I want to say that killing for God is not only hideous murder — it is also utterly ridiculous. (Part 1, 00:44:39)”

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The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“It's tempting to say all religions are bad, and I do say all religions are bad, but it's a worse temptation to say all religions are equally bad because they're not. If you look at the actual impact that different religions have on the world it's quite apparent that at present the most evil religion in the world has to be Islam. It's terribly important to modify that because of course that doesn't mean all Muslims are evil, very far from it. Individual Muslims suffer more from Islam than anyone else. They suffer from the homophobia, the misogyny, the joylessness which is preached by extreme Islam, Isis and the Iranian regime. So it is a major evil in the world, we do have to combat it, but we don't do what Trump did and say all Muslims should be shut out of the country. That's draconian, that's illiberal, inhumane and wicked. I am against Islam not least because of the unpleasant effects it has on the lives of Muslims.”

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As quoted in "Richard Dawkins: religious education is crucial for British schoolchildren" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/11/richard-dawkins-religious-education-crucial-british-schoolchildren/ by Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph (11 June 2017)

“I can think of no moral objection to eating human road kills except for the ones that you mentioned like 'what would the relatives think about it?' and 'would the person themselves have wanted it to happen?', but I do worry a bit about slippery slopes; possibly a little bit more than you do.There are barriers that we have set up in our minds and certainly the barrier between Homo sapiens and any other species is an artificial barrier in the sense that its a kind of 'accident' that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct. Never the less it exists and natural barriers that are there can be useful for preventing slippery slopes and therefore I think I can see an objection to breaching such a barrier because you are then in a weaker position to stop people going further.Another example might be suppose you take the argument in favour of abortion up until the baby was one year old, if a baby was one year old and turned out to have some horrible incurable disease that meant it was going to die in agony in later life, what about infanticide? Strictly morally I can see no objection to that at all, I would be in favour of infanticide but I think i would worry about/I think I would wish at least to give consideration to the person who says 'where does it end?'”

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Peter Singer - The Genius of Darwin: The Uncut Interviews (2009)

“The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.”

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Richard Dawkins livre The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?

“What is the selfish gene? It is not just one single physical bit of DNA. Just as in the primeval soup, it is all replicas of a particular bit of DNA, distributed throughout the world.”

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Richard Dawkins livre The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 6. Genesmanship

“McDonald: Now a lot of people find great comfort from religion. Not everybody is as you are – well-favored, handsome, wealthy, with a good job, happy family life. I mean, your life is good – not everybody's life is good, and religion brings them comfort.Dawkins: There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting – it might be more comforting, for all I know. But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.”

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An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)

“Yet scientists are required to back up their claims not with private feelings but with publicly checkable evidence. Their experiments must have rigorous controls to eliminate spurious effects. And statistical analysis eliminates the suspicion (or at least measures the likelihood) that the apparent effect might have happened by chance alone.Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the £740,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe. Why don't the television editors insist on some equivalently rigorous test? Could it be that they believe the alleged paranormal powers would evaporate and bang go the ratings?Consider this. If a paranormalist could really give an unequivocal demonstration of telepathy (precognition, psychokinesis, reincarnation, whatever it is), he would be the discoverer of a totally new principle unknown to physical science. The discoverer of the new energy field that links mind to mind in telepathy, or of the new fundamental force that moves objects around a table top, deserves a Nobel prize and would probably get one. If you are in possession of this revolutionary secret of science, why not prove it and be hailed as the new Newton? Of course, we know the answer. You can't do it. You are a fake.Yet the final indictment against the television decision-makers is more profound and more serious. Their recent splurge of paranormalism debauches true science and undermines the efforts of their own excellent science departments. The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudo-scientific charlatans. The public appetite for wonder can be fed, through the powerful medium of television, without compromising the principles of honesty and reason.”

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[Human gullibility beyond belief,— the “paranormal” in the media, The Sunday Times, 1996-08-25]

“I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don't look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can't find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today.”

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Giles Whittell, " The world according to Richard Dawkins http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article4191347.ece" (), The Times, quoted in Trevor Grundy, " Richard Dawkins Pedophilia Remarks Provoke Outrage http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/richard-dawkins-pedophilia_n_3895514.html" (), The Huffington Post.