English - Scientist | March 26, 1941 -
I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
Richard Dawkins
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I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.
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I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.
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Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.
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Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.
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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
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Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
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One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
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If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.
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Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
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Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity?
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If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
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