Richard Dawkins Berühmte Zitate
Der Gotteswahn. Ullstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3550086881. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel. S. 15
"atheism nearly always indicates a healthy independence of mind and, indeed, a healthy mind" - S. 26,
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995), Der entzauberte Regenbogen (Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998), Der Gotteswahn (The God Delusion, 2006)
Der Gotteswahn. Ullstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3550086881. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel. Vorderseite Schutzumschlag
("As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known." - S. 321
"More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding." - S. 151 ')
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995), Der entzauberte Regenbogen (Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998), Der Gotteswahn (The God Delusion, 2006)
Zitate über Gott von Richard Dawkins
Der Gotteswahn. Ullstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3550086881. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel. S. 77
"What matters is not whether God is disprovable (he isn't) but whether his existence is probable." - S. 77,
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995), Der entzauberte Regenbogen (Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998), Der Gotteswahn (The God Delusion, 2006)
Zitate über Glauben von Richard Dawkins
Der Gotteswahn. Ullstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3550086881. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel. S. 393
"But my belief in evolution is not fundamentalism, and it is not faith, because I know what it would take to change my mind, and I would gladly do so if the necessary evidence were forthcoming." - S. 320,
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995), Der entzauberte Regenbogen (Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998), Der Gotteswahn (The God Delusion, 2006)
Richard Dawkins Zitate und Sprüche
Während der Think Week im Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford vom 15. Februar 2013. YouTube #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OtFSDKrq88, YouTube #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvkbiElAOqU&t=1h11m23s
"If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works ... bitches."
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995), Der entzauberte Regenbogen (Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998), Sonstiges
Und es entsprang ein Fluß in Eden. Goldmann Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-442-12784-x. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel. S. 151
"The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference."
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995)
Und es entsprang ein Fluß in Eden. Goldmann Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-442-12784-x. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel. S. 150
"The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, […]"
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995)
Der entzauberte Regenbogen: Wissenschaft, Aberglaube und die Kraft der Phantasie, Rowohlt Verlag, 2. Auflage, Januar 2002, ISBN 3499613379. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel.
"The Darwinian explanation for why living things are so good at doing what they do is very simple. They are good because of the accumulated wisdom of their ancestors."
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995), Der entzauberte Regenbogen (Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998)
Der Gotteswahn. Ullstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3550086881. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel. S. 500
"[The truly adult view, by contrast, is that] our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed." - S. 404,
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995), Der entzauberte Regenbogen (Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998), Der Gotteswahn (The God Delusion, 2006)
Der entzauberte Regenbogen: Wissenschaft, Aberglaube und die Kraft der Phantasie, Rowohlt Verlag, 2. Auflage, Januar 2002, ISBN 3499613379. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel.
"Every generation has its Darwinian failures but every individual is descended only from previous generations’ successful minorities."
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995), Der entzauberte Regenbogen (Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998)
Der entzauberte Regenbogen: Wissenschaft, Aberglaube und die Kraft der Phantasie, Rowohlt Verlag, 2. Auflage, Januar 2002, ISBN 3499613379. Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel.
"Heredity is not the same thing as reproduction. You can have reproduction without heredity. Bush fires reproduce but without heredity."
Und es entsprang ein Fluss in Eden (River out of Eden, 1995), Der entzauberte Regenbogen (Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998)
Richard Dawkins: Zitate auf Englisch
Quelle: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 13. The Long Reach of the Gene
Quelle: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 12. Nice Guys Finish First
Quelle: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 9. Battle of the Sexes
Quelle: 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)
Quelle: 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
Quelle: The God Delusion (2006), p. 135 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007
Quelle: 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
Quelle: 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"
Quelle: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 8, “Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets” (p. 258)
Quelle: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 5, “The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment” (p. 166)
Quelle: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 3, “The Message from the Mountain” (pp. 89-90)
“Mutation may be random, but selection definitely is not.”
Quelle: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 3, “The Message from the Mountain” (p. 82)
Quelle: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 2, “Silken Fetters” (p. 58)