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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.“

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„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.“

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Richard Dawkins: Citáty anglicky

“If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!”

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Richard Dawkins

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/435344902591770624 (17 February 2014) <br class="br">Twitter

“It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.”

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

“Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye.”

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Part 2: "The Virus of Faith"
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“The fact that something is written down is persuasive to people not used to asking questions like: ‘Who wrote it, and when?’ ‘How did they know what to write?’ ‘Did they, in their time really mean what we, in our time, understand them to be saying?’ ‘Were they unbiased observers, or did they have an agenda that coloured their writing?’.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Boží blud

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 118 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

“The world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors. That, in a sentence, is Darwinism.”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“This not only misses the point, it is the precise antithesis of the point.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Blind Watchmaker

Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 10 “The One True Tree of Life” (p. 261)

“More generally it is completely unrealistic to claim, as Gould and many others do, that religion keeps itself away from science's turf, restricting itself to morals and values. A universe with a supernatural presence would be a fundamentally and qualitatively different kind of universe from one without. The difference is, inescapably, a scientific difference. Religions make existence claims, and this means scientific claims.”

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"When Religion Steps on Science’s Turf", Free Inquiry (1998)

“It would be deeply depressing if the only way children could get moral values was from religion. Either from scripture, and God knows we don't want them to get it from scripture, I mean, just look at scripture. Or, from being afraid of God, being intimidated by God. Anybody who is good for only those two reasons is not really being good at all. Why not teach children things like the Golden Rule, do as you would be done by, how would you like it if other children did that to you, so why do you do it to them… I think it's depressing that anybody should suggest that you actually need God in order to be moral. I would hope that our morals come from a better source than that, and therefore they are genuinely moral rather than based on outmoded scripture, or based on fear.”

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BBC http://youtube.com/watch?v=HtUd7-tha_w, ()

“… it seems that it would take less than half a million years to evolve a good camera eye … It's no wonder "the" eye has evolved at least 40 times independently around the animal kingdom … It is a geological blink.”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Selfish Gene

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

“[…] if I am asked for a single phrase to characterize my role as Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, I think I would claim Advocate for Disinterested Truth.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha A Devil's Chaplain

"Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.”

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

“We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Selfish Gene

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

“Isn't Deepak Chopra just exploiting Quantum jargon as plausible-sounding hocus pocus?”

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Richard Dawkins

The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)

“Natural selection builds child brains with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is valuable for survival: the analogue of steering by the moon for a moth. But the flip side of trusting obedience is slavish gullibility. The inevitable by-product is vulnerability to infection by mind viruses.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Boží blud

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 176

“Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anybody who doubts it is invited to jump out of a tenth-floor window.”

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Richard Dawkins

The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008)

“Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Blind Watchmaker

Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 6 “Origins and Miracles” (p. 162)

“… a lion wants to eat an antelope's body, but the antelope has very different plans for its body. This is not normally regarded as competition for a resource, but logically it is hard to see why not.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Selfish Gene

Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 5. Aggression: stability and the selfish machine

“If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them? Who's God trying to impress? Presumably himself, since he is judge and jury, as well as execution victim.”

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Richard Dawkins

Part 2, 00:29:56
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“It's almost impossible to say anything against Islam in this country, because you are accused of being racist or Islamophobic.”

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Richard Dawkins

2008 comment quoted in "Fury over Richard Dawkins's burka jibe as atheist tells of his 'visceral revulsion' at Muslim dress", Daily Mail (10 August 2010) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301750/Fury-Richard-Dawkinss-burka-jibe-atheist-tells-revulsion-Muslim-dress.html

“… it is certainly wrong to condemn poor old Homo Sapiens as the only species to kill his own kind, the only inheritor of the mark of Cain, and similar melodramatic charges.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Selfish Gene

Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 5. Aggression: stability and the selfish machine

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Richard Dawkins

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

“… a gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Selfish Gene

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

“… the true utility function of life, that which is being maximised in the natural world, is DNA survival. But DNA is not floating free; it is locked up in living bodies and it has made the most of the levers of power at its disposal.”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“With respect to those meanings of "human" that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.”

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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/311774201012948992 (13 March 2013) <br class="br">Twitter

“Don't call him "clock boy" since he never made a clock. Hoax Boy, having hoaxed his way into the White House, now wants $15M in addition!”

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@RichardDawkins https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/669098728662409216 () <br class="br">Regarding the Ahmed Mohamed clock incident. <br class="br">Twitter

“… leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods … express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Selfish Gene

Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 7. Family planning

“… you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“It is even possible to mount a serious, though not widely supported, historical case that Jesus never lived at all … Although Jesus probably existed, reputable biblical scholars do not in general regard the New Testament (and obviously not the Old Testament) as reliable record of what actually happened in history, and I shall not consider the Bible further evidence for any kind of deity.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Boží blud

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 122