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Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.

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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.

Come, Dangerous, Independent, People, Religious

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

Fiction, Fond, Science, Science Fiction

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.

Ability, Contained, Existence, God, Perspective, Weigh

The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction.

Exactly, Islands, Religion, Space, Throughout

Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

Giving, Ironically, Might, Originally, Tweet, Wrote

People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn't purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.

Believe, Kindness, Like, Love, Purely, Real

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

One Day, Bangs, May, Bang, Day, Solve

Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. That would have been a fair comparison.

Come, Intellectual, Islam, Race, Religion

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Item, Needs, News, Pegged, Stories

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.

Actually, Argue, Arguments, Biblical, Interesting, Literature

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop

Decide, Goes On, Good, Ideas, Sometimes, Stop

The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.

Eggs, Way, Chickens, Making

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

Avail, Benefits, Education, Made, Possible, Technology

I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach.

Religious, Representative, Strong, Think, Thinking

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Blind Belief, Curiosity, Meme, Perpetuation, Secures, Simple

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

Evolution, Inappropriate, People, Tendency

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

Death, Business, Believe, Drop, Brains, Thing

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well. Evolution is not some recondite backwater of science, ignorance of which would be pardonable. It is the stunningly simple but elegant explanation of our very existence and the existence of every living creature on the planet.

Ignorance, Simple, Religion, Fields, Betrays, Stunningly

Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment. "

Black, Defend, Entertainment, Fiction, Suspect, White

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things too.

Course, Demeaning, Glory, Good, Spirit

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