Richard Dawkins: Frases em inglês (página 16)

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“Replicators are no longer peppered freely through the sea; they are packaged in huge colonies—individual bodies. And phenotypic consequences, instead of being evenly distributed throughout the world, have in many cases congealed into those same bodies. But the individual body, so familiar to us on our planet, did not have to exist. The only kind of entity that has to exist in order for life to arise, anywhere in the universe, is the immortal replicator.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 13. The Long Reach of the Gene

“If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look. What the Darwinian corpus gives us is not detailed expectations about particular organisms. It gives us something subtler and more valuable: understanding of principle. But if we must have myths, the real facts about vampires could tell a different moral tale.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 12. Nice Guys Finish First

“One feature of our own society that seems decidedly anomalous is the matter of sexual advertisement. As we have seen, it is strongly to be expected on evolutionary grounds that, where the sexes differ, it should be the males that advertise and the females that are drab. Modern western man is undoubtedly exceptional in this respect. It is of course true that some men dress flamboyantly and some women dress drably but, on average, there can be no doubt that in our society the equivalent of the peacock’s tail is exhibited by the female, not by the male. Women paint their faces and glue on false eyelashes. Apart from special cases, like actors, men do not.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 9. Battle of the Sexes

“A system whereby each child told the parent how hungry he was would be ideal for the parent, and, as we have seen, such a system seems to have evolved. But the young are in a strong position to lie, because they know exactly how hungry they are, while the parent can only guess whether they are telling the truth or not. It is almost impossible for a parent to detect a small lie, although it might see through a big one.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 8. Battle of the Generations

“Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable. The universe is populated by stable things.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 2. The replicators

“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.
End of the part 2: "The Virus of Faith" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMUG6qd98wc
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.”

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Richard Dawkins livro Unweaving the Rainbow

Fonte: 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."”

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If you want to be "safe" you are not worthy of a university education.
https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/590953689826914305 (22 April 2015)
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“I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over."”

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I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me.
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/336048706853937152 (19 May 2013)
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“Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

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

“I am not attacking any particular version of God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, wherever and whenever they have been or will be invented.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

Fonte: The God Delusion (2006), p. 57 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.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

Fonte: 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."”

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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.”

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

“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.”

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The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)

“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?””

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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"

“The attitude that living things are placed here for our benefit still dominates our culture, even where its underpinnings have disappeared. We now need, for purposes of scientific understanding, to find a less human-centered view of the natural world.”

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Richard Dawkins livro Climbing Mount Improbable

Fonte: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 8, “Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets” (p. 258)

“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.”

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Richard Dawkins livro Climbing Mount Improbable

Fonte: 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.”

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Richard Dawkins livro Climbing Mount Improbable

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