Citate celebre ale personalității RICHARD DAWKINS

Clinton Richard Dawkins, (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford’s Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. With his book The Extended Phenotype (1982), he introduced into evolutionary biology the influential concept that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism’s body, but can stretch far into the environment. In 2006, he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Dawkins is known as an outspoken atheist. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In The Blind Watchmaker (1986), he argues against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker, in that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any designer. In The God Delusion (2006), Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion. Dawkins has been awarded many prestigious academic and writing awards, and he makes regular television, radio, and Internet appearances, predominantly discussing his books, his atheism, and his ideas and opinions as a public intellectual.


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– Deci, ce ne face să fim oameni?
– Suntem maimuțe unicale. Avem un limbaj. Și alte animale au sisteme de comunicare, dar mult mai imperfecte. Nu au capacitatea noastră de a vorbi despre lucruri care nu există în realitate. Acestea sunt trăsături unice ale creierului nostru de maimuță, care, judecând după dovezile disponibile, a trecut doar printr-un număr mic de mutații.

– Ai o singură dorință. Ce dorință îți pui?
– Probabil, toți din întreaga lume ar trebui să-și construiască viața și principiile pe baza dovezilor, să renunțe la superstiții sub orice formă, inclusiv religie. Să se străduie să facă bine, să trăiască după conștiința lor, să se bucure de viață și astfel încât până la moarte să facă lumea mai bună decât atunci când au intrat în ea.