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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.”

Richard Dawkins

), 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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“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

“It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.”

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

“Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye.”

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Part 2: "The Virus of Faith"
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: ‘Who wrote it, and when?’ ‘How did they know what to write?’ ‘Did they, in their time really mean what we, in our time, understand them to be saying?’ ‘Were they unbiased observers, or did they have an agenda that coloured their writing?’.”

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Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 118 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

“The world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors. That, in a sentence, is Darwinism.”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“This not only misses the point, it is the precise antithesis of the point.”

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Richard Dawkins livre The Blind Watchmaker

Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 10 “The One True Tree of Life” (p. 261)

“More generally it is completely unrealistic to claim, as Gould and many others do, that religion keeps itself away from science's turf, restricting itself to morals and values. A universe with a supernatural presence would be a fundamentally and qualitatively different kind of universe from one without. The difference is, inescapably, a scientific difference. Religions make existence claims, and this means scientific claims.”

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"When Religion Steps on Science’s Turf", Free Inquiry (1998)

“It would be deeply depressing if the only way children could get moral values was from religion. Either from scripture, and God knows we don't want them to get it from scripture, I mean, just look at scripture. Or, from being afraid of God, being intimidated by God. Anybody who is good for only those two reasons is not really being good at all. Why not teach children things like the Golden Rule, do as you would be done by, how would you like it if other children did that to you, so why do you do it to them… I think it's depressing that anybody should suggest that you actually need God in order to be moral. I would hope that our morals come from a better source than that, and therefore they are genuinely moral rather than based on outmoded scripture, or based on fear.”

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BBC http://youtube.com/watch?v=HtUd7-tha_w, ()

“… it seems that it would take less than half a million years to evolve a good camera eye … It's no wonder "the" eye has evolved at least 40 times independently around the animal kingdom … It is a geological blink.”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.”

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Richard Dawkins livre The Selfish Gene

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

“You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book. I'm talking, of course, of the DNA in your cells.”

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

“[…] if I am asked for a single phrase to characterize my role as Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, I think I would claim Advocate for Disinterested Truth.”

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Richard Dawkins livre A Devil's Chaplain

"Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.”

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

“We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?”

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Richard Dawkins livre The Selfish Gene

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

“Isn't Deepak Chopra just exploiting Quantum jargon as plausible-sounding hocus pocus?”

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The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)

“Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is valuable for survival: the analogue of steering by the moon for a moth. But the flip side of trusting obedience is slavish gullibility. The inevitable by-product is vulnerability to infection by mind viruses.”

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Richard Dawkins livre Pour en finir avec Dieu

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 176

“Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anybody who doubts it is invited to jump out of a tenth-floor window.”

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The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008)

“Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.”

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Richard Dawkins livre The Blind Watchmaker

Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 6 “Origins and Miracles” (p. 162)

“… a lion wants to eat an antelope's body, but the antelope has very different plans for its body. This is not normally regarded as competition for a resource, but logically it is hard to see why not.”

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Richard Dawkins livre The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 5. Aggression: stability and the selfish machine

“If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them? Who's God trying to impress? Presumably himself, since he is judge and jury, as well as execution victim.”

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Part 2, 00:29:56
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“It's almost impossible to say anything against Islam in this country, because you are accused of being racist or Islamophobic.”

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2008 comment quoted in "Fury over Richard Dawkins's burka jibe as atheist tells of his 'visceral revulsion' at Muslim dress", Daily Mail (10 August 2010) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301750/Fury-Richard-Dawkinss-burka-jibe-atheist-tells-revulsion-Muslim-dress.html