Richard Dawkins: Frases em inglês (página 4)

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“My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.”

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Richard Dawkins

Fonte: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

“My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a 'they' as opposed to a 'we' can be identified at all.”

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Richard Dawkins livro A Devil's Chaplain

"Time to Stand Up"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
Fonte: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

“You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene

“The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

Fonte: The God Delusion

“Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

Fonte: The God Delusion

“The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The Magic of Reality

Duke University, 01/03/2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcOoqxuroI&t=54m51s
The Magic Of Reality (2012)
Fonte: The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Contexto: Don’t ever be lazy enough, defeatist enough, cowardly enough to say “I don't understand it so it must be a miracle - it must be supernatural - God did it”. Say instead, that it’s a puzzle, it’s strange, it’s a challenge that we should rise to. Whether we rise to the challenge by questioning the truth of the observation, or by expanding our science in new and exciting directions - the proper and brave response to any such challenge is to tackle it head-on. And until we've found a proper answer to the mystery, it's perfectly ok simply to say “this is something we don't yet understand - but we're working on it”. It's the only honest thing to do. Miracles, magic and myths, they can be fun. Everybody likes a good story. Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth. The real truth has a magic of its own. The truth is more magical, in the best and most exciting sense of the word, than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic - the magic of reality.

“Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene

“The truth is that all examples of child protection and parental care, and all associated bodily organs … are examples of the working in nature of the kin-selection principle.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 6. Genesmanship

“Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious
defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking
after himself.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

Fonte: The God Delusion

“It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.”

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Richard Dawkins

“The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.”

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Richard Dawkins

Fonte: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene

“We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene

“Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

Fonte: The God Delusion

“‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.”

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Richard Dawkins

“The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.”

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Richard Dawkins livro The God Delusion

Fonte: The God Delusion

“Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.”

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Richard Dawkins livro O Gene Egoísta

Fonte: The Selfish Gene

“You've just said a very revealing thing. Are you telling me that the only reason you don't steal and rape and murder is that you're frightened of God?”

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Richard Dawkins

Part 2, 00:13:55
Part 2: "The Virus of Faith", quoted at "The Proper Study of Mankind" blog http://psom.blogspot.com/2006/01/root-of-all-evil-part-2-virus-of-faith.html on January 25, 2006
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)