Home / Quotes / Quote by Richard Dawkins

Quote by Richard Dawkins

“I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.”

Quote by Richard Dawkins

Book:Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

Work

Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

This book compiles a selection of writings that delve into the philosophical and ethical dimensions of scientific inquiry, reflecting the author's commitment to rationality and the pursuit of knowledge. more

Author

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, writer, and thinker, known for his contributions to evolutionary theory, particularly in the field of modern synthesis. He is widely recognized for his best-selling book 'The Selfish Gene', which explains the central role of genes in biological evolution. Dawkins has made significant impacts in the field of science communication and has sparked widespread discussions about human behavior and morality. more

You May Also Like

“We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.”

World Wells Discovery Claims Physics Awe Liberating Genetics Awe Inspiring

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.”

Matter America Turns Violence

Author:Steve Irwin

“Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.”

Choices Protect Advantage Window Consumers Monopoly Microsoft Taking Advantage Consumer Choice

Author:Janet Reno

“While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.”

Knows Men Want Should Trying Real Lost Wealth Justice Common Know How Land Property Casts Riches Common Good Real Property

Author:Saint Basil

“Once you let go of your morals, everything becomes funny”

Moral Letting Go

Author:David Hayden

“Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.”

People Want Littles Values Opinion Bases Accurate

Author:Charles Simmons

“Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.”

Heart Transforming Awakened Gratefulness

Book:The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

Source: The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Tradition is laziness.”

Tradition Laziness

Author:Gustav Mahler

“The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.”

Facts Stories Suffering Hero Prosperity Accidents Tales Midst Calamity Conducting Instantaneous

Book:Shakespearean Tragedy

Source: Shakespearean Tragedy

“Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.”

Ifs Men Play Lying Belief Impossible Century Balance Tragedy Optimistic Curious Pessimist Pathos

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller