Richard Dawkins Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

  Richard Dawkins

  Love, Hope, Wisdom

  The Selfish Gene ch. 1 (1976)

• When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Views, Opposites

  "One side can be wrong" by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.

• What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Heart, Technology

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

• If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope to eventually understand it and embrace it within the natural. As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Rainbow, World

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to
  look.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Want, Looks

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.252, Oxford University Press

• Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Doctors, Patient

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