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
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[Dawkins, Richard, Richard Dawkins, Why don't animals have wheels?, Sunday Times, November 24, 1996, http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1996-11-24wheels.shtml, October 29, 2008, http://web.archive.org/web/20070221073440/http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1996-11-24wheels.shtml, February 21, 2007]
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)
Darwin's Dangerous Disciple: An Interview by Frank Miele (1995)
Dawkins on Q&A (), replying to a Muslim man who asked about 'absolute morality'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu7AQTs_y5A
The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)
Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 184)
[1998, Unweaving the Rainbow, London, Allen Lane, 9780713992144, 18827466M, Preface]
Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)
"Good and Bad Reasons for Believing" [open letter to his daughter]
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
Answering audience questions after a reading of The God Delusion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mmskXXetcg,Randolph-Macon Woman's College,
Posed question: "This is probably going to be the most simplest one for you to answer, but: What if you're wrong?"
BBC's Have Your Say (December 2007)
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/307369895031603200 (28 February 2013)
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The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)
Source: River out of Eden (1995), Ch. 5: The Replication Bomb
Source: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 5. Aggression: stability and the selfish machine
“Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 3 “Accumulating Small Change” (p. 50)
there are always sufficiently gullible patients
Foreword to Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations by John Diamond, Vintage, 2001.
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed ()
The Enemies of Reason, "The Irrational Health Service"
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/336048706853937152 (19 May 2013)
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At Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Broadcasted by C-SPAN2 http://richarddawkins.net/home
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/358514912789676033 (20 July 2013)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roFdPHdhgKQ&t=59m29s
Richard Dawkins vs. Jonathan Sacks - BBC's RE:Think Festival (2012)