Richard Dawkins híres idézetei
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Richard Dawkins: Idézetek angolul
“Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.”
Richard Dawkins könyv The Blind Watchmaker
Forrás: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 2 “Good Design” (p. 41)
“So-called alternative medicine either hasn’t been tested or it has failed its tests.”
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Kontextus: If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn’t been tested or it has failed its tests.
Richard Dawkins könyv The God Delusion
Forrás: The God Delusion
“The genes are the master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.”
Richard Dawkins könyv The Selfish Gene
Forrás: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 4. The Gene machine
Richard Dawkins könyv The God Delusion
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)
Forrás: Part 1: "The God Delusion"
Richard Dawkins könyv The God Delusion
Heart Of The Matter: God Under The Microscope | BBC (1996)
Változat: [... ] one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Forrás: The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins debates Rowan Williams (2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVxciEFyBT0&t=32m42s
Richard Dawkins könyv The Selfish Gene
Forrás: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?
Kontextus: Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
Richard Dawkins könyv The Selfish Gene
Forrás: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 4. The Gene machine
Kontextus: Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines that who can only learn of the basis of trial and error. The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal.... The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have culminated in subjective consciousness. Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology.
that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?” <br class="br">During his conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, as quoted in The Telegraph, in . In " Richard Dawkins: I can't be sure God does not exist http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html"
Richard Dawkins könyv The God Delusion
Forrás: The God Delusion
“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 00:38:16ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Változat: Science is the poetry of reality.
Kontextus: The word 'mundane' has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin 'mundus', meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)
An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)
“The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.”
Richard Dawkins könyv The God Delusion
Forrás: The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins könyv The Selfish Gene
Preface to the first edition
Forrás: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989)
Richard Dawkins könyv The Selfish Gene
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/276449081746915328 (5 December 2012) <br class="br">Twitter <br class="br">Forrás: The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins könyv The God Delusion
Forrás: The God Delusion (2006)
Kontextus: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. (p. 31 of the hardcover edition and p. 51 of the paperback edition; see also: Dan Barker, God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction, foreword by Richard Dawkins, 2016)
Richard Dawkins könyv The God Delusion
Forrás: The God Delusion
“I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I’m sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.”
Interview with Bill Maher (2013) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2b_1382908273
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)
Richard Dawkins könyv The God Delusion
Forrás: The God Delusion (2006), p. 360
Richard Dawkins könyv The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009)
Kontextus: Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact. The evidence for evolution is at least as strong as the evidence for the Holocaust, even allowing for eye witnesses to the Holocaust. It is the plain truth that we are cousins of chimpanzees, somewhat more distant cousins of monkeys, more distant cousins still of aardvarks and manatees, yet more distant cousins of bananas and turnips... continue the list as long as desired.
