Richard Dawkins Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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

• Science is the poetry of reality.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reality

  "The Enemies of Reason: Slaves to Superstition". TV Movie, August 13, 2007.

• The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Latin, Mean

• There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, World, God Delusion

  "The Enemies of Reason". Documentary, 2007.

• ‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reality, People, Religion

• 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

• My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Justice, Sublime

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution”, p.700, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reality, Ideas, Divine

• The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it? Carl Sagan, I think, said 'when you're in love, you want to tell the world.' And who, on understanding a scientific view of reality, would not, as it were, fall in love and want to tell the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Falling In Love, Love You, Reality

• It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reading, Reality, Ecosystems

• Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

  Richard Dawkins

  Father, Reality, Suffering

  "Science saves". www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2004.

• The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Science, Reality

  The Blind Watchmaker Chapter 11

• Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book, Creation: Life and How to Make It, is as interesting as you would expect. But he illuminates more than just the properties of life: his originality extends to matter itself and the very nature of reality. Not since David Deutsch's The Fabric of Reality have I encountered such a compelling invitation to think everything out afresh, from the bottom up.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, Reality, Thinking

  "What were you looking at?: A host of celebrity critics choose their books of the year". www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2000.

• In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to provide a villain to play off Jesus in his fictitious drama.
  Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing. I find the reality thrilling.

  Richard Dawkins

  Jesus, Drama, Reality

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