Richard Dawkins: Frases em inglês

“Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Relojoeiro Cego

Fonte: 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.”

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Richard Dawkins

The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Contexto: 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.

“Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

Fonte: The God Delusion

“The genes are the master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 4. The Gene machine

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)
Fonte: Part 1: "The God Delusion"

“What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding the world they live in.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

Heart Of The Matter: God Under The Microscope | BBC (1996)
Variante: [... ] one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Fonte: The God Delusion

“Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.”

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Richard Dawkins debates Rowan Williams (2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVxciEFyBT0&t=32m42s

“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.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?
Contexto: 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.

“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.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 4. The Gene machine
Contexto: 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.

“What I can’t understand is why you can’t see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing”

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that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?”
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"

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

Fonte: The God Delusion

“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”

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The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”

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“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”

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The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 00:38:16ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Variante: Science is the poetry of reality.
Contexto: 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.