Frases de Richard Dawkins
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Clinton Richard Dawkins es un etólogo, zoólogo, biólogo evolutivo[1]​ y divulgador científico británico.

Fue titular de la cátedra Charles Simonyi de Difusión de la Ciencia en la Universidad de Oxford hasta 2008.

Es autor de El gen egoísta, obra publicada en 1976, que popularizó la visión evolutiva enfocada en los genes, y que introdujo los términos meme y memética. En 1982, hizo una contribución original a la ciencia evolutiva con la teoría presentada en su libro El fenotipo extendido, que afirma que los efectos fenotípicos no están limitados al cuerpo de un organismo, sino que pueden extenderse en el ambiente, incluyendo los cuerpos de otros organismos. Desde entonces, su labor divulgadora escrita le ha llevado a colaborar igualmente en otros medios de comunicación, como varios programas televisivos sobre biología evolutiva, creacionismo y religión.

En su libro El espejismo de Dios, Dawkins sostenía que era casi una certidumbre que un creador sobrenatural no existía; y que la creencia en un dios personal podría calificarse como un delirio, como una persistente falsa creencia. Dawkins se muestra de acuerdo con la observación hecha por Robert M. Pirsig en relación a que «cuando una persona sufre de un delirio se llama locura. Cuando muchas personas sufren de un delirio se llama religión».[2]​

Hasta enero de 2010, la versión en inglés de El espejismo de Dios había vendido más de dos millones de ejemplares.[3]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 26. marzo 1941
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Frases célebres de Richard Dawkins

“Lo que me preocupa de la religión es que le enseña a las personas a estar satisfechas con no comprender.”

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

Frases de Dios de Richard Dawkins

“Lo que no puedo entender es porqué no pueden ver la extraordinaria belleza de la idea de que la vida surgió de la nada – eso es una cosa tan asombrosa, elegante, y maravillosa, ¿por qué querer saturarla con algo tan complicado como un Dios?”

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

“Los genes operan de manera misteriosa.”

The Selfish Gene

“Ya no tenemos que recurrir a la superstición cuando se enfrentan a los problemas profundos: ¿Existe un sentido a la vida? ¿Qué estamos buscando? ¿Qué es el hombre?”

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?»

“El meme para una fe ciega asegura su propia perpetuación por el simple expediente inconsciente de desalentar la investigación racional.”

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)

“El argumento de este libro es que nosotros, y todos los demás animales, somos máquinas creadas por nuestros genes.”

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)

“… Se espera del resto de nosotros que defendamos nuestros prejuicios. Pero pedirle a una persona religiosa que justifique su fe, infringe la “libertad religiosa”.”

«The irrationality of faith» (‘La irracionalidad de la fe’). New Statesman, 31 de marzo de 1989.
1989-2003

“La población de EE. UU. es de 300 millones aproximadamente, e incluye a muchos de los seres humanos mejor educados, más talentosos y más inventivos de la Tierra. Bajo casi cualquier medida de logros civilizados (desde premios Nobeles en adelante) EE. UU. está adelantado al resto del mundo por kilómetros. Uno podría pensar que un país con tales recursos, con semejante campo de talento, sería capaz de elegir a un líder de la más alta calidad. Y sin embargo, ¿qué ha sucedido? Al final de todas las primarias y de todas las camarillas partidarias, los discursos y los debates en televisión, después de un año o más de incansable conmoción eleccionaria, ¿quién surge de toda esa población de 300 millones? George Bush.”

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.

“[El Dios del Antiguo Testamento es], sin duda el personaje más desagradable en toda ficción: celoso y orgulloso de ello, un mezquino, injusto, un controlador implacable, un vengativo limpiador étnico sediento de sangre, un misógino, homófobo, racista, infanticida, genocida, filicida, pestilente, megalómano, sadomasoquista, matón caprichosamente malévolo.”

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.

Richard Dawkins: Frases en inglés

“To an atheist […], there is no all-seeing all-loving god to keep us free from harm. But atheism is not a recipe for despair. I think the opposite. By disclaiming the idea of the next life, we can take more excitement in this one. The here and now is not something to be endured before eternal bliss or damnation. The here and now is all we have, an inspiration to make the most of it. So atheism is life-affirming, in a way religion can never be. Look around you. Nature demands our attention, begs us to explore, to question. Religion can provide only facile, ultimately unsatisfying answers. Science, in constantly seeking real explanations, reveals the true majesty of our world in all its complexity. People sometimes say "There must be more than just this world, than just this life."”

But how much more do you want? We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they’re never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here, the number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist. We are privileged to be alive and we should make the most of our time on this world.
End of the part 2: "The Virus of Faith" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMUG6qd98wc
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.”

Richard Dawkins libro Unweaving the Rainbow

Fuente: Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), Ch. 1 : The Anaesthetic of Familiarity; Dawkins is reported to have stated that this passage will be read at his funeral; it is often quoted with an extension which does not occur in any thus-far-checked editions of the book: "We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"

“University is about confronting new ideas, unfamiliar, un-"safe."”

If you want to be "safe" you are not worthy of a university education.
https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/590953689826914305 (22 April 2015)
Twitter

“I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over."”

I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me.
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/336048706853937152 (19 May 2013)
Twitter

“Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 135 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

“science is the best way to do anything”

if you want to do terrible things with technology, a terrible weapons for example science is the best way to do it because science is the best way to do anything

“[…] one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 152 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

“Another force driving progressive evolution is the so-called "arms-race."”

Prey animals evolve faster running speeds because predators do. Consequently predators have to evolve even faster running speeds, and so on, in an escalating spiral. Such arms races probably account for the spectacularly advanced engineering of eyes, ears, brains, bat "radar" and all the other high-tech weaponry that animals display.
The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)

“Unfortunately, instead of working out that they have probably misunderstood evolution, creationists conclude, instead, that evolution must be false.”

Heat the Hornet https://www.nairaland.com/233071/heat-hornet-why-evolution-true (a review of Jerry Coyne's book Why Evolution is True)

“What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing – 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"

“The plaint that there hasn’t been enough time for the eye to evolve turns out to be not just wrong but dramatically, decisively, ignominiously wrong.”

Richard Dawkins libro Climbing Mount Improbable

Fuente: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 5, “The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment” (p. 166)

“It is easy to think of DNA as the information by which a body makes another body like itself. It would be more correct to see a body as the vehicle used by DNA to make more DNA like itself.”

Richard Dawkins libro Climbing Mount Improbable

Fuente: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 3, “The Message from the Mountain” (pp. 89-90)

“Mutation may be random, but selection definitely is not.”

Richard Dawkins libro Climbing Mount Improbable

Fuente: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 3, “The Message from the Mountain” (p. 82)

“In fact writing a computer program is a pretty good way to summarize knowledge about any set of rules.”

Richard Dawkins libro Climbing Mount Improbable

Fuente: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 2, “Silken Fetters” (p. 58)

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