“The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.”
— Richard Dawkins
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Category: poetry
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“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.”
— Richard Dawkins
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Category: time
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“I love romantic poetry.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.”
— Richard Dawkins
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Category: history
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“We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us – through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology – that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.”
— Richard Dawkins
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Category: technology
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“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“Evolution never looks to the future.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
— Richard Dawkins
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“Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.”
— Richard Dawkins
Author: Richard Dawkins
Category: science
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