Richard Dawkins Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).

  Richard Dawkins

  Epidemics, Hysteria, Childhood

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that one narrow interpretation, what the Bible describes is very consistent with the Big Bang.

  Richard Dawkins

  Perspective, Risk, Bangs

  Source: inters.org

• If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Nice, Believe

  "Scientists divided over alliance with religion" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2007.

• If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Risk, Goes On

  Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.235, Random House

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