Original en inglés: «What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding».
Heart Of The Matter: God Under The Microscope. BBC, 1996.
1989-2003
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The God Delusion
Frases de Dios de Richard Dawkins
Dawkins en The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html, febrero 24, 2012.
Durante su conversación con el arzobispo de Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, en The Telegraph, 24 de febrero de 2012. En "Richard Dawkins: No puedo estar seguro de que Dios no existe (en inglés)"
Richard Dawkins Frases y Citas
The God Delusion
El gen egoísta (1976, 1989)
Original: W«e 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?»
Original en inglés: «The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry».
El gen egoísta (1976, 1989)
Original en inglés: «The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes».
El gen egoísta (1976, 1989)
«The irrationality of faith» (‘La irracionalidad de la fe’). New Statesman, 31 de marzo de 1989.
1989-2003
Original en inglés: «The population of the US is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the US leads the world by miles. You would think that a country with such resources, and such a field of talent, would be able to elect a leader of the highest quality. Yet, what has happened? At the end of all the primaries and party caucuses, the speeches and the televised debates, after a year or more of non-stop electioneering bustle, who, out of that entire population of 300 million, emerges at the top of the heap? George Bush».
Artículo de Dawkins en The Guardian del 22 de marzo de 2003.
1989-2003
Fuente: Dawkins, Richard. «Bin Laden's victory.» 22 de marzo de 2003. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/22/iraq.usa The Guardian. Consultado el 5 de mayo de 2019.
Original en inglés: «The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully».
El Espejismo de Dios (2006)
Fuente: Riemen, Rob. Para combatir esta era: Consideraciones urgentes sobre el fascismo y el humanismo. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2017. https://books.google.es/books?id=4kbVDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT69&dq=dawkins+%22el+personaje+m%C3%A1s+desagradable+en+toda+ficci%C3%B3n%22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQh6CtpYXiAhW_BWMBHUfJAfwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=dawkins%20%22el%20personaje%20m%C3%A1s%20desagradable%20en%20toda%20ficci%C3%B3n%22&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 5 de mayo de 2019.
“La ciencia es la poesía de la realidad.”
Los enemigos de la razón (2007)
Fuente: Ponce, Fausto. Cosas que debes saber antes de cumplir cuarenta. Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2018. https://books.google.es/books?id=qeNVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT112&dq=dawkins+%C2%ABLa+ciencia+es+la+poes%C3%ADa+de+la+realidad%C2%BB&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVx5iYp4XiAhVQrxoKHUelASUQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=dawkins%20%C2%ABLa%20ciencia%20es%20la%20poes%C3%ADa%20de%20la%20realidad%C2%BB&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 5 de mayo de 2019.
“Creo que es escandaloso lo poco que les enseñan a los niños en la escuela de evolución.”
El genio de Darwin (2008)
Evolución. El mayor espectáculo sobre la Tierra
Richard Dawkins: Frases en inglés
“Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.”
Richard Dawkins
libro
The Blind Watchmaker
Fuente: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 2 “Good Design” (p. 41)
“So-called alternative medicine either hasn’t been tested or it has failed its tests.”
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Contexto: If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn’t been tested or it has failed its tests.
“The genes are the master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.”
Richard Dawkins
libro
El gen egoísta
Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 4. The Gene machine
Richard Dawkins
libro
El espejismo de Dios
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)
Fuente: Part 1: "The God Delusion"
Richard Dawkins
libro
El espejismo de Dios
Heart Of The Matter: God Under The Microscope | BBC (1996)
Variante: [... ] one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Fuente: The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins debates Rowan Williams (2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVxciEFyBT0&t=32m42s
Richard Dawkins
libro
El gen egoísta
Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?
Contexto: Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
Richard Dawkins
libro
El gen egoísta
Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 4. The Gene machine
Contexto: Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines that who can only learn of the basis of trial and error. The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal.... The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have culminated in subjective consciousness. Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology.
that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?”
During his conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, as quoted in The Telegraph, in . In " Richard Dawkins: I can't be sure God does not exist http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html"
“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 00:38:16ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Variante: Science is the poetry of reality.
Contexto: The word 'mundane' has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin 'mundus', meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)
An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)
“The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.”
Richard Dawkins
libro
El espejismo de Dios
Fuente: The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
libro
El gen egoísta
Preface to the first edition
Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989)
Richard Dawkins
libro
El gen egoísta
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/276449081746915328 (5 December 2012)
Twitter
Fuente: The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
libro
El espejismo de Dios
Fuente: The God Delusion (2006)
Contexto: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. (p. 31 of the hardcover edition and p. 51 of the paperback edition; see also: Dan Barker, God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction, foreword by Richard Dawkins, 2016)
“I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I’m sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.”
Interview with Bill Maher (2013) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2b_1382908273
Richard Dawkins
libro
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
(p. 8)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009)
Contexto: Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact. The evidence for evolution is at least as strong as the evidence for the Holocaust, even allowing for eye witnesses to the Holocaust. It is the plain truth that we are cousins of chimpanzees, somewhat more distant cousins of monkeys, more distant cousins still of aardvarks and manatees, yet more distant cousins of bananas and turnips... continue the list as long as desired.
Fuente: River out of Eden (1995), pp. 131–132
Contexto: The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive; others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear; others are being slowly devoured from within by rasping parasites; thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst and disease. [... ] In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
