Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

Richard Dawkins

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

Richard Dawkins

There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.

Richard Dawkins

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

Richard Dawkins

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

Richard Dawkins

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Richard Dawkins

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

Richard Dawkins

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

Richard Dawkins

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

Richard Dawkins

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

Richard Dawkins

The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.

Richard Dawkins

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

Richard Dawkins

To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Richard Dawkins

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Richard Dawkins

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Richard Dawkins

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Rita Dove

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Rita Dove

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

Rita Dove

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Rita Dove

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Rita Dove

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

Rita Dove