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Clinton Richard Dawkins brit etológus, evolúciós biológus és népszerű tudományos író. 1995-től 2008-ig az Oxfordi Egyetemen Charles Simonyi által létrehozott Tudomány-népszerűsítő Tanszék vezetője. A Royal Society tagja, aktív ateista, műveiben gyakran foglalkozik vallási kérdésekkel. Hírnevét 1976-ban Az önző gén című könyvével alapozta meg, amelyben ismertette a géncentrikus evolúció lényegét és annak utolsó fejezetével megalkotta a memetika alapjait. Ezt követte 1982-ben A hódító gén. Gyakori vitapartner televíziós és rádiós műsorokban főként evolúciós biológiai, kreacionizmussal kapcsolatos és vallási témákban.

Emellett lelkes szekuláris humanista, szkeptikus és a Brights Mozgalom kiemelkedő alakja. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. március 1941
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„Az önző gén”

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„A hódító gén”

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„Isteni téveszme”

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Richard Dawkins: Idézetek angolul

“To an atheist […], there is no all-seeing all-loving god to keep us free from harm. But atheism is not a recipe for despair. I think the opposite. By disclaiming the idea of the next life, we can take more excitement in this one. The here and now is not something to be endured before eternal bliss or damnation. The here and now is all we have, an inspiration to make the most of it. So atheism is life-affirming, in a way religion can never be. Look around you. Nature demands our attention, begs us to explore, to question. Religion can provide only facile, ultimately unsatisfying answers. Science, in constantly seeking real explanations, reveals the true majesty of our world in all its complexity. People sometimes say "There must be more than just this world, than just this life."”

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But how much more do you want? We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they’re never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here, the number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist. We are privileged to be alive and we should make the most of our time on this world. <br class="br">End of the part 2: &quot;The Virus of Faith&quot; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMUG6qd98wc <br class="br">The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“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 Arabia. 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.”

Richard Dawkins könyv Unweaving the Rainbow

Forrás: Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), Ch. 1 : The Anaesthetic of Familiarity; Dawkins is reported to have stated that this passage will be read at his funeral; it is often quoted with an extension which does not occur in any thus-far-checked editions of the book: "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?"

“University is about confronting new ideas, unfamiliar, un-"safe."”

Richard Dawkins

If you want to be &quot;safe&quot; you are not worthy of a university education. <br class="br"> https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/590953689826914305 (22 April 2015) <br class="br">Twitter

“I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over."”

Richard Dawkins

I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me. <br class="br"> https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/336048706853937152 (19 May 2013) <br class="br">Twitter

“Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true.”

Richard Dawkins könyv The God Delusion

Forrás: The God Delusion (2006), p. 135 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

“science is the best way to do anything”

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if you want to do terrible things with technology, a terrible weapons for example science is the best way to do it because science is the best way to do anything

“[…] one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”

Richard Dawkins könyv The God Delusion

Forrás: The God Delusion (2006), p. 152 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

“Another force driving progressive evolution is the so-called "arms-race."”

Richard Dawkins

Prey animals evolve faster running speeds because predators do. Consequently predators have to evolve even faster running speeds, and so on, in an escalating spiral. Such arms races probably account for the spectacularly advanced engineering of eyes, ears, brains, bat "radar" and all the other high-tech weaponry that animals display.
The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)

“Unfortunately, instead of working out that they have probably misunderstood evolution, creationists conclude, instead, that evolution must be false.”

Richard Dawkins

Heat the Hornet https://www.nairaland.com/233071/heat-hornet-why-evolution-true (a review of Jerry Coyne&#x27;s book Why Evolution is True)

“What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing – that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?””

Richard Dawkins

During his conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, as quoted in The Telegraph, in . In &quot; Richard Dawkins: I can&#x27;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&quot;

“The plaint that there hasn’t been enough time for the eye to evolve turns out to be not just wrong but dramatically, decisively, ignominiously wrong.”

Richard Dawkins könyv Climbing Mount Improbable

Forrás: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 5, “The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment” (p. 166)

“It is easy to think of DNA as the information by which a body makes another body like itself. It would be more correct to see a body as the vehicle used by DNA to make more DNA like itself.”

Richard Dawkins könyv Climbing Mount Improbable

Forrás: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 3, “The Message from the Mountain” (pp. 89-90)

“Mutation may be random, but selection definitely is not.”

Richard Dawkins könyv Climbing Mount Improbable

Forrás: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 3, “The Message from the Mountain” (p. 82)

“In fact writing a computer program is a pretty good way to summarize knowledge about any set of rules.”

Richard Dawkins könyv Climbing Mount Improbable

Forrás: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 2, “Silken Fetters” (p. 58)

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