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 célebres de Richard Dawkins
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
Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 13. The Long Reach of the Gene
Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 12. Nice Guys Finish First
Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 9. Battle of the Sexes
Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 8. Battle of the Generations
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)
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
Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 135 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007
Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 57 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
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)
Heat the Hornet https://www.nairaland.com/233071/heat-hornet-why-evolution-true (a review of Jerry Coyne's book Why Evolution is True)
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
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"
Fuente: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 8, “Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets” (p. 258)
Fuente: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 5, “The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment” (p. 166)
Fuente: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 3, “The Message from the Mountain” (pp. 89-90)
“Mutation may be random, but selection definitely is not.”
Fuente: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 3, “The Message from the Mountain” (p. 82)
Fuente: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 2, “Silken Fetters” (p. 58)