Richard Dawkins Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Benefits, Made

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so. But if you want to do good, to solve the world's problems, to progress in the best value-laden sense, once again, there is no better means to those ends than the scientific way.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Mean, Science

  "The Evolutionary Future of Man". The Economist, Septermber 11, 1993.

• Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Common Sense, Doe

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.410, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Understanding, Mind

  "Life: A gene-centric view". Craig Venter and Richard Dawkins: A Conversation in Munich, www.edge.org. January 23, 2008.

• We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Space, Brain

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

• 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

• There is something wrong with using faith - belief without evidence - as a political weapon. I wouldn't say there is something similar about using science. Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Technology, Political

  "Interview: Richard Dawkins Keeps Making New Enemies". Interview with Isaac Chotiner, newrepublic.com. October 29, 2013.

• The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Evil, Purpose

  Source: newrepublic.com

• It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very, very high level of technology- and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. And I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a signature of some sort of designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Technology, Civilization

  "Atheist Richard Dawkins makes some startling comments on religion". www.glennbeck.com. August 27, 2012.

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