Richard Dawkins Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

  Richard Dawkins

  Bird, Mammals, Consciousness

• I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Would Be, Movement

• A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Children, Parent

• Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.

  Richard Dawkins

  Winning, Ridiculous, Argument

  "The Flying Spaghetti Monster". Interview with Steve Paulson, www.salon.com. October 13, 2006.

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