Richard Dawkins Zitate: 22 Zitate über natürliche Selektion, Glauben, alternative Medizin, Atheismus und das Wesen des Lebens

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Richard Dawkins Berühmte Zitate

„Blasphemie ist ein opferloses Verbrechen.“

Richard Dawkins

„Welch Größenwahn ist es zu denken, ein Gott den hundert Millionen Galaxien beschäftigen, würde auch nur im geringsten interessieren, mit wem Sie schlafen oder ob Sie überhaupt an ihn glauben.“

Richard Dawkins

„[Gott ist] ein rachsüchtiger blutrünstiger ethnischer Säuberer, ein frauenfeindlicher, homophober Rassist, ein Kinder-und Völkermörder, ein Philisterschlächter, ein verderblicher, größenwahnsinniger, sadomasochistischer, kapriziöser Tyrann.“

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„Die sogenannte Alternativmedizin wurde entweder nicht getestet oder hat ihre Tests nicht bestanden.“

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„Atheismus ist fast immer ein Zeichen für eine gesunde geistige Unabhängigkeit und sogar für einen gesunden Geist.“

Richard Dawkins buch Der Gotteswahn

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)

„Ich bin ein Gegner der Religion. Sie lehrt uns, damit zufrieden zu sein, dass wir die Welt nicht verstehen.“

Richard Dawkins buch Der Gotteswahn

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

„So schwierig es auch sein mag, diese einfachen Ursprünge zu akzeptieren, so sind sie dennoch viel leichter annehmbar als komplizierte Anfänge. Komplizierte Dinge entwickeln sich spät im Universum, als Folge langsamer, allmählicher, inkrementeller Schritte. Gott, sofern er existiert, müsste in der Tat eine sehr, sehr, sehr komplizierte Instanz sein. Einen Gott als Anfang, als Antwort auf das Rätsel der ersten Ursache des Universums zu postulieren, heißt, sich selbst konzeptuell ins eigene Knie zu schießen, weil Sie damit sofort etwas postulieren, das weitaus komplizierter ist als das, was Sie zu erklären versuchen.“

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„Wir sind alle Atheisten bezüglich der meisten Götter, an die Gesellschaften jemals geglaubt haben. Einige von uns gehen nur einen Gott weiter.“

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„Entscheidend ist nicht, ob Gottes Existenz widerlegbar ist (das ist sie nicht), sondern ob sie wahrscheinlich ist.“

Richard Dawkins buch Der Gotteswahn

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

„Es ist absolut vertretbar zu sagen, wenn Sie jemanden treffen, der behauptet, nicht an die Evolution zu glauben, dass diese Person unwissend, dumm oder verrückt ist (oder niederträchtig, aber ich würde das lieber nicht in Betracht ziehen).“

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„Dass ich von der Evolution überzeugt bin, hat nichts mit Fundamentalismus oder religiösem Glauben zu tun, denn ich weiß ganz genau, welche Voraussetzungen erfüllt sein müssen, damit ich meine Ansichten ändere, und ich würde es sofort tun, wenn die erforderlichen Belege auf dem Tisch lägen.“

Richard Dawkins buch Der Gotteswahn

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)

„Viele von uns sahen Religion als harmlosen Unsinn an. Glaubensbekenntnisse mögen keine stichhaltigen Beweise enthalten, aber wir dachten, wenn die Menschen eine Krücke zum Trost brauchen, wo ist der Schaden? Der 11. September hat all das geändert. Offenbarter Glaube ist kein harmloser Unsinn, er kann tödlich gefährlicher Unsinn sein. Gefährlich, weil es den Menschen unerschütterliches Vertrauen in ihre eigene Gerechtigkeit gibt. Gefährlich, weil es ihnen den falschen Mut gibt, sich selbst zu töten, wodurch normale Hindernisse für das Töten anderer automatisch beseitigt werden. Gefährlich, weil es anderen Feindschaft lehrt, die nur durch einen Unterschied der ererbten Tradition gekennzeichnet ist. Und gefährlich, weil wir uns alle auf einen seltsamen Respekt eingelassen haben, der die Religion auf einzigartige Weise vor normaler Kritik schützt. Hören wir jetzt auf, so verdammt respektvoll zu sein!“

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„DIE MEHRHEIT der Kinder, die in diese Welt geboren wurden, neigen dazu, die Überzeugungen ihrer Eltern zu erben, und das ist für mich unter allen eine der bedauerlichsten Tatsachen.“

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Über Kinder , Über die Welt

„Wenn Medizin auf Wissenschaft beruht, heilt man Menschen. Wenn das Design von Flugzeugen auf Wissenschaft beruht, fliegen sie. Wenn das Design von Raketen auf Wissenschaft beruht, erreichen sie den Mond. Es funktioniert … Bitches.“

Richard Dawkins

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

Über Menschen , Wissenschaft

„Das Universum, das wir beobachten, hat genau die Eigenschaften, mit denen man rechnet, wenn dahinter kein Plan, keine Absicht, kein Gut oder Böse steht, nichts außer blinder, erbarmungsloser Gleichgültigkeit.“

Richard Dawkins buch Und es entsprang ein Fluß in Eden

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)

Über Universum , Böse , Gleichgültigkeit

„Seien wir auf jeden Fall offen, aber nicht so offen, dass unser Gehirn herausfällt.“

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„Das Leiden hat in der Natur jedes Jahr ein Ausmaß, das alle erträglichen Vorstellungen übersteigt. In der Minute, in der ich diesen Satz niederschreibe, werden Tausende von Tieren bei lebendigem Leibe gefressen; andere laufen bebend vor Angst um ihr Leben; wieder andere werden langsam und von innen heraus durch gefräßige Parasiten zugrunde gerichtet.“

Richard Dawkins buch Und es entsprang ein Fluß in Eden

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)

Über Angst , Über Leben , Tiere , Über natur

„Die darwinistische Erklärung dafür, warum Lebewesen das, was sie tun, so gut können, ist sehr einfach. Sie sind gut durch die angehäufte Klugheit ihrer Vorfahren.“

Richard Dawkins buch Der entzauberte Regenbogen

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)

„Unser Leben ist so sinnvoll, so ausgefüllt und großartig, wie wir selbst es gestalten. Und wir können es wirklich großartig gestalten.“

Richard Dawkins buch Der Gotteswahn

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)

Über Leben

„Die Evidenz für die Evolution ist mindestens so stark wie die Evidenz für den Holocaust, sogar unter Berücksichtigung von Augenzeugen für den Holocaust.“

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Stark

„Jede Generation hat ihre darwinistischen Versager, aber jedes Individuum stammt nur von den erfolgreichen Minderheiten der vorangegangenen Generation ab.“

Richard Dawkins buch Der entzauberte Regenbogen

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)

Vogel , Phantasie , Wissenschaft

„Vererbung ist nicht das Gleiche wie Fortpflanzung. Es kann auch Fortpflanzung ohne Vererbung geben: Ein Waldbrand pflanzt sich fort, aber er vererbt nichts.“

Richard Dawkins buch Der entzauberte Regenbogen

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

“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 buch Der Gotteswahn

Quelle: 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 buch The Blind Watchmaker

Quelle: 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 buch The Selfish Gene

Quelle: 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 buch The Selfish Gene

Quelle: 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.