Richard Dawkins Quotes

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

Richard Dawkins

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If I was such a corporate Democrat, why would the California Nurses Association, one of the leading advocates for a single-payer system, endorse me?

Jimmy Gomez

MeWhyCaliforniaSystemDemocrat

The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.

John Gurdon

WorkHopeValueSupportResearch

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

Sonia Sotomayor

TimeVoiceStructureSeeI SeeUse

I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

Simon Helberg

MyselfKitchenTryingMy OwnOwn

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

Josh Radnor

WorldPictureAttentionNewsPaint

Oculus is a company that often does things differently. But we don't want to do things so differently that we start to get into trouble.

Brendan Iribe

StartTroubleWantCompanyThings

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

Bruce Springsteen

LiveMusicMeEgoEnjoyAttention

None of my movies are autobiographical.

Susanne Bier

MoviesNoneAutobiographical

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Richard Cobden

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The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.

Lionel Murphy

PeopleLearnPlanAustraliaWould

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

Kent Beck

ChallengePressureDesignInteresting

I don't think one film is enough to showcase your talent or to show your abilities as an actor.

Kriti Sanon

TalentThinkEnoughActorFilmShow

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