Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Richard Dawkins

The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.

Richard Dawkins

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

Richard Dawkins

Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.

Richard Dawkins

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Richard Dawkins

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Richard Dawkins

How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

Richard Dawkins

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

Richard Dawkins

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

Richard Dawkins

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

Richard Dawkins

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

Richard Dawkins

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

Richard Dawkins

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.

Richard Dawkins

When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.

Richard Dawkins

I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.

Richard Dawkins

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Richard Dawkins

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