Frases de Richard Dawkins (350 citas, página 9)

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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.”

Richard Dawkins

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

“Mild paedophilia is bad. Violent paedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild paedophilia, go away and learn how to think. Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think.”

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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/494012589828218881 (), quoted in Lizzie Dearden, " Richard Dawkins tweets: 'Date rape is bad, stranger rape is worse' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/richard-dawkins-says-date-rape-is-bad-stranger-rape-is-worse-on-twitter-9634572.html", The Independent ()
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“Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.”

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Richard Dawkins libro A Devil's Chaplain

"Time to Stand Up"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.”

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As quoted in Richard Dawkins causes outcry after likening the burka to a bin liner https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7936221/Richard-Dawkins-causes-outcry-after-likening-the-burka-to-a-bin-liner.html (10 August 2010), The Telegraph.

“(Spectrum level 6) I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.”

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Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 73

“Think about the two qualities that a virus, or any sort of parasitic replicator, demands of a friendly medium, the two qualities that make cellular machinery so friendly towards parasitic DNA, and that make computers so friendly towards computer viruses. These qualities are, firstly, a readiness to replicate information accurately, perhaps with some mistakes that are subsequently reproduced accurately; and, secondly, a readiness to obey instructions encoded in the information so replicated.”

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Richard Dawkins libro Viruses of the Mind

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

“Amusingly, it [astrology] falls foul of our modern taboo against lazy stereotyping. How would we react if a newspaper published a daily column that read something like this: "Germans: It is in your nature to be hard-working and methodical, which should serve you well at work today. In your personal relationships, especially this evening, you will need to curb your natural tendency to obey orders. Chinese: Inscrutability has many advantages, but it may be your undoing today. British: Your stiff upper lip may serve you well in business dealings, but try to relax and let yourself go in your social life.”

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The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 0:05:54ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)

“The absolute morality that a religious person might profess would include what, stoning people for adultery, death for apostasy, punishment for breaking the Sabbath. These are all things which are religiously based absolute moralities. I don’t think I want an absolute morality. I think I want a morality that is thought out, reasoned, argued, discussed and based upon, I’d almost say, intelligent design [pun intended]. Can we not design our society, which has the sort of morality, the sort of society that we want to live in – if you actually look at the moralities that are accepted among modern people, among 21st century people, we don’t believe in slavery anymore. We believe in equality of women. We believe in being gentle. We believe in being kind to animals. These are all things which are entirely recent. They have very little basis in Biblical or Quranic scripture. They are things that have developed over historical time through a consensus of reasoning, of sober discussion, argument, legal theory, political and moral philosophy. These do not come from religion. To the extent that you can find the good bits in religious scriptures, you have to cherry pick. You search your way through the Bible or the Quran and you find the occasional verse that is an acceptable profession of morality and you say, ‘Look at that. That’s religion,’ and you leave out all the horrible bits and you say, ‘Oh, we don’t believe that anymore. We’ve grown out of that.’ Well, of course we’ve grown out it. We’ve grown out of it because of secular moral philosophy and rational discussion.”

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Richard Dawkins-George Pell Q&A (2012)

“… the genetic code is in fact literally identical in all animals, plants and bacteria … All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ancestor.”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“But if you can breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability? Objections such as "these are not one-dimensional abilities" apply equally to cows, horses and dogs and never stopped anybody in practice. I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitler's death, we might at least venture to ask what the moral difference is between breeding for musical ability and forcing a child to take music lessons. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?”

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Richard Dawkins, From the Afterword, The Herald Scotland, (November 20, 2006) http://www.heraldscotland.com/from-the-afterword-1.836155

“But it is we that choose to divide animals up into discontinuous species. On the evolutionary view of life there must have been intermediates, even though, conveniently for our naming rituals, they are usually extinct.”

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Richard Dawkins libro A Devil's Chaplain

"Gaps in the Mind"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“The secret of a joyful life is to live dangerously. A joyful life is an active life - it is not a dull static state of so-called happiness. Full of the burning fire of enthusiasm, anarchic, revolutionary, energetic, daemonic, Dionysian, filled to overflowing with the terrific urge to create - such is the life of the man who risks safety and happiness for the sake of growth and happiness.”

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Richard Dawkins libro A Devil's Chaplain

quoting F. W. Sanderson, "The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“On natural selection: "Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance."”

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Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 146

“I think it is not helpful to apply Darwinian language too widely. Conquest of nation by nation is too distant for Darwinian explanations to be helpful. Darwinism is the differential survival of self-replicating genes in a gene pool, usually as manifested by individual behaviour, morphology, and phenotypes. Group selection of any kind is not Darwinism as Darwin understood it nor as I understand it. There is a very vague analogy between group selection and conquest of a nation by another nation, but I don't think it's a very helpful analogy. So I would prefer not to invoke Darwinian language for that kind of historical interpretation.”

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

“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.”

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Richard Dawkins libro The Blind Watchmaker

Fuente: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 5)

“SJWs can't forgive Shakespeare for having the temerity to be white and male.”

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In 2014, as quoted in The Evolution of Atheism: The Politics of a Modern Movement (2015), Stephen LeDrew

“Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.”

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Gordy Slack, "The Atheist" http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index_np.html (), Salon.com

“As a liberal I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.”

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“No doubt some of your cousins and great-uncles died in childhood, but not a single one of your ancestors did. Ancestors just don't die young!”

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Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 3. Immortal Coils

“Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, ' If science can't do something, therefore religion can.”

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“And when we look closely, we find a system of morals which any civilised person today should surely find poisonous.”

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The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“The four Gospels that made it into the official canon were chosen, more or less arbitrarily, out of a larger sample of at least a dozen … The gospels that didn't make it were omitted by those ecclesiastics perhaps because they included stories that were even more embarrassingly implausible than those in the four canonical ones.”

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Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 121

“I don't withdraw a word of my initial statement. But I do now think it may have been incomplete. There is perhaps a fifth category, which may belong under "insane" but which can be more sympathetically characterized by a word like tormented, bullied, or brainwashed. Sincere people who are not ignorant, not stupid, and not wicked can be cruelly torn, almost in two, between the massive evidence of science on the one hand, and their understanding of what their holy book tells them on the other. I think this is one of the truly bad things religion can do to a human mind. There is wickedness here, but it is the wickedness of the institution and what it does to a believing victim, not wickedness on the part of the victim himself. ”

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Regarding his 1989 statement "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)." (see above)