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„Myslím, že by bylo smutné, kdybyste opravdu potřebovali náboženství k tomu, abyste byli dobří. Neboť když se nad tím zamyslíte, znamenalo by to, že buď jste získali svou morálku a své hodnoty z Bible, Koránu či jiné svaté knihy, anebo že jste dobří jenom proto, že se bojíte Boha, protože nechcete jít do pekla nebo chcete jít do nebe.“

Richard Dawkins

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

„Více mě zajímá, co pravda je, než to, co bych si přál, aby pravda byla.“

Richard Dawkins

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

„Jsem proti náboženství, protože nás učí jak být spokojení, aniž bychom rozuměli světu.“

Richard Dawkins

„Být mrtvý je totéž jako být nenarozený – budu na tom stejně, jako jsem na tom byl v dobách Viléma Dobyvatele nebo dinosaurů nebo trilobitů. Není se čeho bát.“

Richard Dawkins

„Všichni jsme ateisté ohledně většiny bohů, ve které kdy lidstvo věřilo. Někteří z nás jdou jednoduše o jednoho boha dále.“

Richard Dawkins kniha Boží blud

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

„Nemyslím, že bych chtěl nějakou absolutní morálku. Myslím, že chci morálku, která je promyšlená, odůvodněná, zargumentovaná a prodebatovaná, založená – chce se téměř říct – na inteligentním plánu.“

Richard Dawkins

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

„Jakýkoli Bůh, který je schopen zkonstruovat vesmír pečlivě a předvídavě vyladěný tak, aby vedl k naší evoluci, musí být nesmírně složitou a nepravděpodobnou entitou, kterou je třeba vysvětlit ještě složitěji než tu, kterou by měl stvořit.“

Richard Dawkins

„Existence Boha je hypotéza.“

Richard Dawkins

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]

„Věda nahrazuje osobní předsudky veřejně ověřitelnými důkazy.“

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins: Citáty anglicky

“What expertise can theologians bring to deep cosmological questions that scientists cannot?”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Boží blud

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 79

“I don't believe you until you tell me, do you really believe, for example, if they say they are Catholic, "Do you really believe that when a priest blesses a wafer, it turns into the body of Christ? Are you seriously telling me you believe that? Are you seriously saying that wine turns into blood?" Mock them. Ridicule them. In public. Don't fall for the convention that we're all too polite to talk about religion. Religion is not off the table. Religion is not off limits. Religion makes specific claims about the universe which need to be substantiated and need to be challenged and, if necessary, need to be ridiculed with contempt.”

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Richard Dawkins

Reason Rally, National Mall, Washington, DC,

“Once again, modern theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac should not be taken as literal fact. And, once again, the appropriate response is twofold. First, many many people, even to this day, do take the whole of their scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Second, if not as literal fact, how should we take the story? As an allegory? Then an allegory for what? Surely morals could one derive from this appalling story? Remember, all I am trying to establish for the moment is that we do not, as a matter of fact, derive our morals from scripture. Or, if we do, we pick and choose among the scriptures for the nice bits and reject the nasty. But then we must have some independent criterion for deciding which are the moral bits: a criterion which, wherever it comes from, cannot come from scripture itself and is presumably available to all of us whether we are religious or not.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Boží blud

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 275 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

“With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Viruses of the Mind

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

“On the properties of God: "Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know."”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Boží blud

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 184

“The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as "faith."”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Viruses of the Mind

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

“More generally (and this applies to Christianity no less than to Islam), what is really pernicious is the practice of teaching children that faith itself is a virtue. Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. Teaching children that unquestioned faith is a virtue primes them - given certain other ingredients that are not hard to come by - to grow up into potentially lethal weapons for future jihads or crusades.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Boží blud

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), pp. 347-348 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

“Molecular evidence suggests that our common ancestor with chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between five and seven million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards … in your left hand you hold the right hand of your mother. In turn she holds the hand of her mother, your grandmother. Your grandmother holds her mother's hand, and so on … How far do we have to go until we reach our common ancestor with the chimpanzees? It is a surprisingly short way. Allowing one yard per person, we arrive at the ancestor we share with chimpanzees in under 300 miles.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha A Devil's Chaplain

"Gaps in the Mind"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Blind Watchmaker

Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 6)

“A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Boží blud

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 178

“There is no general reason to expect evolution to be progressive – even in the weak, value-neutral sense. There will be times when increased size of some organ is favoured and other times when decreased size is favoured. Most of the time, average-sized individuals will be favoured in the population and both extremes will be penalised. During these times the population exhibits evolutionary stasis (i. e., no change) with respect to the factor being measured. If we had a complete fossil record and looked for trends in some particular dimension, such as leg length, we would expect to see periods of no change alternating with fitful continuations or reversals in direction – like a weathervane in changeable, gusty weather.”

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Richard Dawkins

The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)

“Another force driving progressive evolution is the so-called "arms-race." 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.”

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Richard Dawkins

The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)

“We don’t need fossils – the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Zdroj: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009), p. 164

“I'm told theology is outside my field of expertise. But is theology a "field" at all? Is there anything in "theology" to be expert ABOUT?”

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Richard Dawkins

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/324171554491596803 (16 April 2013) <br class="br">Twitter

“It is normally possible to be much more certain who your children are than who your brothers are. And you can be more certain still who you yourself are!”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Selfish Gene

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

“You don't have to be a scientist – you don't have to play the Bunsen burner – in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need and fill that fancied gap. Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture.”

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Richard Dawkins

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

“There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Blind Watchmaker

Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 9 “Puncturing Punctuationism” (p. 250)

“Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.”

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Richard Dawkins

Steve Paulson, "The flying spaghetti monster" http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/10/13/dawkins/index3.html (), Salon.com

“Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true. (p. 135 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007)”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Boží blud

The God Delusion (2006)

“If you’re seen to criticise Islam you are often accused of racism, which is absurd.”

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Richard Dawkins

“Some states, e. g. "pregnant", are all-or-none, no intermediates. But sexual abuse has shades of grey, from violent buggery to mild touching.”

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Richard Dawkins

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/282850316377014272 <br class="br">Twitter

“There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security blanket of ignorance. There is deep refreshment to be had from standing up and facing straight into the strong keen wind of understanding: Yeats's 'Winds that blow through the starry ways.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha A Devil's Chaplain

Compare: "Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own." Bertrand Russell, What I Believe (1925)
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“You see, if you say something positive like the whole of life – all living things – is descended from a single common ancestor which lived about 4,000 million years ago and that we are all cousins, well that is an exceedingly important and true thing to say and that is what I want to say. Somebody who is religious sees that as threatening and so I am represented as attacking religion, and I am forced into responding to their reaction. But you do not have to see my main purpose as attacking religion. Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading. And that is what is so exciting for me.”

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Richard Dawkins

[1995-04-28, Kam Patel, Going the whole hog, Times Higher Education, http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=97718&sectioncode=26]

“Of course politics are important — Iraq, Palestine, even social deprivation in Bradford. But as we wake up to this huge challenge to our civilised values, don't let's forget the elephant in the room — an elephant called "religion."”

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Richard Dawkins

Part 1, 00:00:24
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“There is one particular property of living things, however, that I want to single out as explicable only by Darwinian selection. This property is the one that has been the recurring topic of this book: adaptive complexity.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Blind Watchmaker

Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 11 “Doomed Rivals” (p. 288)