Richard Dawkins citáty

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Zdroj: DAWKINS, Richard. In: Q&A [televizní pořad]. ABC Australia, 8.3.2010

Zdroj: [Dawkins, Richard, The God Delusion, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2008, 463, 1, 9780618918249, anglicky]

Zdroj: DAWKINS, Richard. In: Q&A [televizní pořad]. ABC Australia, 8.3.2010.

Zdroj: [Hříbek, Tomáš, Zač mají být ateisté vděčni?, lidovky.cz, 2010-19-09, 2011-02-16, http://www.lidovky.cz/ln_noviny.asp?r=ln_noviny&c=A101009_000083_ln_noviny_sko]

The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Kontext: 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.

Zdroj: The God Delusion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

Zdroj: The God Delusion

The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

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

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)

An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)

Zdroj: The God Delusion

Preface to the first edition
Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989)

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/276449081746915328 (5 December 2012)
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Zdroj: The Selfish Gene

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006)
Kontext: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. (p. 31 of the hardcover edition and p. 51 of the paperback edition; see also: Dan Barker, God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction, foreword by Richard Dawkins, 2016)

Zdroj: The God Delusion

Zdroj: The God Delusion

Interview with Bill Maher (2013) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2b_1382908273

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 360

(p. 8)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009)
Kontext: Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact. The evidence for evolution is at least as strong as the evidence for the Holocaust, even allowing for eye witnesses to the Holocaust. It is the plain truth that we are cousins of chimpanzees, somewhat more distant cousins of monkeys, more distant cousins still of aardvarks and manatees, yet more distant cousins of bananas and turnips... continue the list as long as desired.

Zdroj: River out of Eden (1995), pp. 131–132
Kontext: The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive; others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear; others are being slowly devoured from within by rasping parasites; thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst and disease. [... ] In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. 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. DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.