Richard Dawkins Quotes About Myth

Quotes about: Myth

• The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reality, Fiction, Literature

• Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Belief, Results

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

• 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

• Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religion, Atheism, Cosmos

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

• Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Islamic, Literature

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Fun, Believe

• Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fun, Long, Mythology

  "The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True". Book by Richard Dawkins, 2011.

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