Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their d…

Richard Dawkins
389 citations
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics. ✨ The atheist. Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.
Truth
26

More Author Quotes

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.
A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness … ▶
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had no fossils at all, and still the evidence for evolution from other … ▶
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. ✨ Is Science a Religion?. Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.151, Houghton Mif … ▶

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics. ✨ The atheist. Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes