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
Reason Rally, National Mall, Washington, DC,
Quelle: The God Delusion (2006), p. 275 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007
Quelle: The God Delusion (2006), pp. 347-348 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007
“Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”
Quelle: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 6)
The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)
The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)
Quelle: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009), p. 164
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/324171554491596803 (16 April 2013)
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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)
“There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism.”
Quelle: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 9 “Puncturing Punctuationism” (p. 250)
Steve Paulson, "The flying spaghetti monster" http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/10/13/dawkins/index3.html (), Salon.com
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/282850316377014272
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Compare: "Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own." Bertrand Russell, What I Believe (1925)
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
[1995-04-28, Kam Patel, Going the whole hog, Times Higher Education, http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=97718§ioncode=26]
Part 1, 00:00:24
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)
Quelle: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 11 “Doomed Rivals” (p. 288)
An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)
The Enemies of Reason, "The Irrational Health Service"
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/590953689826914305 (22 April 2015)
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Part 2, 00:35:01
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)