Richard Dawkins citáty

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DVD: „From frog to a prince“ 4:28
'en: And, of course, the puzzling thing is where does all this complexity come from? Where does all this information come from? It cannot come about by chance. It’s absolutely inconceivable that you could get something as complicated as a bird, and as well designed as a bird, or a human, or a hedgehog, coming about by chance. That’s absolutely out. Because to get from nothing, from no complexity, no information, to the extreme complexity of a modern living thing in one step of chance couldn’t possibly happen. That would be like throwing a dice a thousand times and getting six every single time. It’s out of the question. But if you allow a little bit of luck in any one generation, and then a little bit of luck in the next generation, little bit of luck in the next generation, by cumulatively adding this luck step by step by step by step, you can work from any degree of simplicity to any degree of complexity. All you need is enough time. So where’s it come from? It’s come from gradual incremental process of evolution by natural selection.
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'en: Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
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'en: Religions do make claims about the universe – the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
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'en: (Edge Foundation): What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? (Dawkins): I believe that all life, all intelligence, all creativity and all “design” anywhere in the universe, is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection. It follows that design comes late in the universe, after a period of Darwinian evolution. Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.
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z River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, 1995
'en: The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
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The God Delusion, s. 59
'en: The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question, even if it is not in practice - or not yet - a decided one.
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'en: Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Podobné: Viera znamená presvedčenie, že isté tvrdenia sú pravdivé - napriek tomu, že dôkazy ich pravdivosti sú nedostatočné alebo vyvracajúce jeho pravdivosť. (Dan Barker)
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Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 12. Nice Guys Finish First

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

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

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

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. <br class="br">End of the part 2: &quot;The Virus of Faith&quot; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMUG6qd98wc <br class="br">The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

Zdroj: 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?"

If you want to be &quot;safe&quot; you are not worthy of a university education. <br class="br"> https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/590953689826914305 (22 April 2015) <br class="br">Twitter

I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me. <br class="br"> https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/336048706853937152 (19 May 2013) <br class="br">Twitter

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

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 57 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

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

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 152 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

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)

Heat the Hornet https://www.nairaland.com/233071/heat-hornet-why-evolution-true (a review of Jerry Coyne&#x27;s book Why Evolution is True)

The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)

During his conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, as quoted in The Telegraph, in . In &quot; Richard Dawkins: I can&#x27;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&quot;

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

Zdroj: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 5, “The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment” (p. 166)

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

Zdroj: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 3, “The Message from the Mountain” (p. 82)

Zdroj: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 2, “Silken Fetters” (p. 58)