Richard Dawkins Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reality, Miracle, Magic

  Richard Dawkins (2011). “The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

• Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Stress, Views

  "Going the whole hog". www.timeshighereducation.com. April 28, 1995.

• I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Atheist, Believe

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Magic, Fairy Tale

• I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Magic, Exception

  Source: newrepublic.com

• I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Childhood, Magic

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