Frases de Richard Dawkins (350 citas, página 5)

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

Richard Dawkins

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

“La razón construyó el mundo moderno. Es una cosa preciosa, pero también frágil, que puede ser corrompida por irracionalidad aparentemente inofensiva.”

Richard Dawkins

Los enemigos de la razón (2007)

“Los creacionistas están negando evidencia científica para sustentar un mito de la Edad de Bronce.”

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“La fe ciega puede justificar lo que sea. Si un hombre cree en un dios diferente, o incluso si usa un ritual diferente para adorar al mismo dios, la fe ciega puede decretar que debe morir ya sea en una cruz, empalado, atravesado por la espada de un cruzado, con un disparo en una calle de Beirut, o dinamitado en un bar en Belfast. Los memes de la fe ciega tienen sus propias maneras inmisericordes de propagarse a sí mismos. Esto es cierto en la fe ciega patriótica y política, al igual que en la religiosa.”

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“Uno de los verdaderamente nefastos efectos de la religión es que nos inculca como virtud el estar satisfechos con el desconocimiento.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

The God Delusion

“Sugerir que la primera causa, la gran desconocida que es responsable de que exista algo en vez de nada, es un ser capaz de diseñar el universo y de hablar a millones de personas simultáneamente, es una abdicación total de la responsabilidad de encontrar una explicación. Es una espantosa exhibición de confianza en un gancho celestial, llena de autoindulgencia y negación del pensamiento.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

The God Delusion

Frases de Dios de Richard Dawkins

“Muertes en la Biblia: el dios Yahvé mató a 2.270.365 (sin incluir las víctimas de Sodoma y Gomorra, del diluvio de Noé, y de las múltiples plagas, hambrunas, fieras serpientes, etc., porque no se proporcionan cantidades específicas al respecto). Satán mató a 10.”

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“Todos somos ateos respecto a la mayoría de dioses en los que la humanidad ha creído alguna vez. Algunos simplemente vamos un dios más allá.”

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“Los depredadores parecen bellamente "diseñados" para cazar a sus presas, mientras que las presas parecen igual de bellamente "diseñadas" para escapar de ellos. ¿De qué lado está Dios?.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

The God Delusion

“No puedo estar seguro de que Dios no existe… En una escala de siete, en la que uno significa que sé que él existe, y siete que sé que no existe, diría que soy un seis… Eso no significa que estoy absolutamente seguro, que lo sé absolutamente, porque no lo estoy.”

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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.

“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?”

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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

“Aceptamos alegremente que podemos amar a más de un niño, padre, hermano, profesor, amigo o mascota. Cuando pensamos en esto de esta forma, ¿no es positivamete extraña la total exclusividad que esperamos del amor conyugal?.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

The God Delusion

Padre , De amor

“Los genes operan de manera misteriosa.”

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

The Selfish Gene

“He mantenido conversaciones absolutamente maravillosas con obispos anglicanos, y sospecho que en un momento de franqueza podrían decir que no creen en la inmaculada concepción, Pero por cada uno de ellos hay cuatro que le dirían a un niño que se va a pudrir en el infierno por dudar.”

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Infierno

“Si se mira la Vía Láctea con los ojos de Carl Sagan, nos embarga el sentimiento de algo mayor que nosotros, Y así es. Pero no es sobrenatural.”

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“En un universo de fuerzas físicas ciegas y reproducción genética, unos sufrirán daños y otros no, y es imposible encontrarle el sentido o la justicia”.”

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De justicia , Sentido , Universo

“Si sólo hay un creador que hizo al tigre y al cordero, al guepardo y a la gacela, ¿a qué está jugando? ¿Es un sádico que disfruta siendo espectador de deportes sangrientos?”

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Deporte

“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?”

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

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?»

De hombres , De vida , Problema , Sentido

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

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

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)

De fe

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

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

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)

De libros , Los animales

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

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

De fe , Libertad

“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.”

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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.

De paz , De mundo , País

“[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.”

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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.

De celos

“La ciencia es la poesía de la realidad.”

Richard Dawkins

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.

Realidad , Ciencia

“Necesitamos favorecer las evidencias verificables por sobre las observaciones personales. O nos colocaremos vulnerables a que nos obscurezcan la verdad.”

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Los enemigos de la razón (2007)

De verdad

“Creo que es escandaloso lo poco que les enseñan a los niños en la escuela de evolución.”

Richard Dawkins

El genio de Darwin (2008)

De niños , De escuela

“Ocasionalmente recibo una carta de alguien que está en «contacto» con extraterrestres. Se me invita a «preguntarles cualquier cosa». A lo largo de los años he preparado una lista de preguntas. No debemos olvidar que los extraterrestres están muy avanzados. Pregunto, por tanto, cosas como «Por favor, proporcióneme una prueba corta del último teorema de Fermat». O de la conjetura de Goldbach… Nunca recibo una respuesta. Por otro lado, si pregunto algo como «¿deberíamos ser buenos?», casi siempre recibo una respuesta. Estos alienígenas siempre están dispuestos a responder a cualquier cosa vaga, especialmente si involucra los clásicos juicios emocionales. Pero sobre algo específico, en lo que hay una oportunidad de descubrir si realmente saben algo más allá de lo que la mayoría de los humanos saben, solo hay silencio.”

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Evolución. El mayor espectáculo sobre la Tierra

Silencio , Oportunidad , Pregunta

“Debemos enseñar a nuestros hijos el altruismo ya que no podemos esperar que éste forme parte de su naturaleza biológica”

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

The Selfish Gene

Naturaleza , Hijas

Richard Dawkins: Frases en inglés

“How do we account for the current paranormal vogue in the popular media? Perhaps it has something to do with the millennium – in which case it's depressing to realise that the millennium is still three years away.”

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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)

“evidence is the only good reason to believe anything”

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interview shown in AlJazeera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0jA6VsivBE&t=0h26m04s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0jA6VsivBE&t=0h28m37s

“There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I could easily imagine trying to go against Darwinism.”

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Darwin's Dangerous Disciple: An Interview by Frank Miele (1995)

“Dear Muslima

Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and . . . yawn . . . don't tell me yet again, I know you aren't allowed to drive a car, and you can't leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you'll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with.

Only this week I heard of one, she calls herself Skep"chick", and do you know what happened to her? A man in a hotel elevator invited her back to his room for coffee. I am not exaggerating. He really did. He invited her back to his room for coffee. Of course she said no, and of course he didn't lay a finger on her, but even so . . .

And you, Muslima, think you have misogyny to complain about! For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.

Richard”

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Blog comment, , to PZ Myers, " Always Name Names https://web.archive.org/web/20110706204901/http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/07/always_name_names.php" (), Pharyngula, quoted in Rebecca Watson, " The Privilege Delusion http://skepchick.org/2011/07/the-privilege-delusion/", Skepchick.
Regarding the Rebecca Watson elevator incident.

“Who (apart from the pig) is damaged by bacon?”

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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/480273220659339264 (21 June 2014)
Twitter

“But there are many unsophisticated Christians out there … who take the Bible very seriously indeed as a literal and accurate record of history and hence as evidence supporting the religious beliefs. Do these people never open the book that they believe is the literal truth? Why don't they notice the glaring contradictions?”

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Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 120

“Mitochondrial DNA is blessedly celibate. (p.53)”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“Even sticking to the higher plane of love, is it so very obvious that you can't love more than one person? We seem to manage it with parental love (parents are reproached if they don't at least pretend to love all their children equally), love of books, of food, of wine (love of Chateau Margaux does not preclude love of a fine Hock, and we don't feel unfaithful to the red when we dally with the white), love of composers, poets, holiday beaches, friends... why is erotic love the one exception that everybody instantly acknowledges without even thinking about it?”

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Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/richard_dawkins/2007/11/banishing_the_greeneyed_monste.html, November 2007.

“The successful scientist and the raving crank are separated by the quality of their inspirations. But I suspect that this amounts, in practice, to a difference, not so much in ability to notice analogies as in ability to reject foolish analogies and pursue helpful ones.”

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Richard Dawkins libro The Blind Watchmaker

Fuente: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 8 “Explosions and Spirals” (pp. 195–196)

“We should be offended when children are denied a proper education. We should be offended when children are told they will spend eternity in hell. We should be offended when medical science, for example stem-cell research, is compromised by the bigoted opinions of powerful and above all well-financed ignoramuses. We should be offended when voodoo, of all kinds, is given equal weight to science. We should be offended by hymen reconstruction surgery. We should be offended by 'female circumcision', euphemism for genital mutilation. We should be offended by stoning.”

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Lecture at UC Berkeley about The God Delusion, 08/03/2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaJelU29jeI&t=49s
Lecture at UC Berkeley (2008)

“I want to say that killing for God is not only hideous murder — it is also utterly ridiculous. (Part 1, 00:44:39)”

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The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“It's tempting to say all religions are bad, and I do say all religions are bad, but it's a worse temptation to say all religions are equally bad because they're not. If you look at the actual impact that different religions have on the world it's quite apparent that at present the most evil religion in the world has to be Islam. It's terribly important to modify that because of course that doesn't mean all Muslims are evil, very far from it. Individual Muslims suffer more from Islam than anyone else. They suffer from the homophobia, the misogyny, the joylessness which is preached by extreme Islam, Isis and the Iranian regime. So it is a major evil in the world, we do have to combat it, but we don't do what Trump did and say all Muslims should be shut out of the country. That's draconian, that's illiberal, inhumane and wicked. I am against Islam not least because of the unpleasant effects it has on the lives of Muslims.”

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As quoted in "Richard Dawkins: religious education is crucial for British schoolchildren" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/11/richard-dawkins-religious-education-crucial-british-schoolchildren/ by Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph (11 June 2017)

“I can think of no moral objection to eating human road kills except for the ones that you mentioned like 'what would the relatives think about it?' and 'would the person themselves have wanted it to happen?', but I do worry a bit about slippery slopes; possibly a little bit more than you do.There are barriers that we have set up in our minds and certainly the barrier between Homo sapiens and any other species is an artificial barrier in the sense that its a kind of 'accident' that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct. Never the less it exists and natural barriers that are there can be useful for preventing slippery slopes and therefore I think I can see an objection to breaching such a barrier because you are then in a weaker position to stop people going further.Another example might be suppose you take the argument in favour of abortion up until the baby was one year old, if a baby was one year old and turned out to have some horrible incurable disease that meant it was going to die in agony in later life, what about infanticide? Strictly morally I can see no objection to that at all, I would be in favour of infanticide but I think i would worry about/I think I would wish at least to give consideration to the person who says 'where does it end?'”

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Peter Singer - The Genius of Darwin: The Uncut Interviews (2009)

“The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.”

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Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?

“What is the selfish gene? It is not just one single physical bit of DNA. Just as in the primeval soup, it is all replicas of a particular bit of DNA, distributed throughout the world.”

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Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 6. Genesmanship

“McDonald: Now a lot of people find great comfort from religion. Not everybody is as you are – well-favored, handsome, wealthy, with a good job, happy family life. I mean, your life is good – not everybody's life is good, and religion brings them comfort.Dawkins: There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting – it might be more comforting, for all I know. But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.”

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An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)

“Yet scientists are required to back up their claims not with private feelings but with publicly checkable evidence. Their experiments must have rigorous controls to eliminate spurious effects. And statistical analysis eliminates the suspicion (or at least measures the likelihood) that the apparent effect might have happened by chance alone.Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the £740,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe. Why don't the television editors insist on some equivalently rigorous test? Could it be that they believe the alleged paranormal powers would evaporate and bang go the ratings?Consider this. If a paranormalist could really give an unequivocal demonstration of telepathy (precognition, psychokinesis, reincarnation, whatever it is), he would be the discoverer of a totally new principle unknown to physical science. The discoverer of the new energy field that links mind to mind in telepathy, or of the new fundamental force that moves objects around a table top, deserves a Nobel prize and would probably get one. If you are in possession of this revolutionary secret of science, why not prove it and be hailed as the new Newton? Of course, we know the answer. You can't do it. You are a fake.Yet the final indictment against the television decision-makers is more profound and more serious. Their recent splurge of paranormalism debauches true science and undermines the efforts of their own excellent science departments. The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudo-scientific charlatans. The public appetite for wonder can be fed, through the powerful medium of television, without compromising the principles of honesty and reason.”

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[Human gullibility beyond belief,— the “paranormal” in the media, The Sunday Times, 1996-08-25]

“I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don't look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can't find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today.”

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Giles Whittell, " The world according to Richard Dawkins http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article4191347.ece" (), The Times, quoted in Trevor Grundy, " Richard Dawkins Pedophilia Remarks Provoke Outrage http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/richard-dawkins-pedophilia_n_3895514.html" (), The Huffington Post.