Richard Dawkins Quotes About Childhood

• ¿No es una sorprendente coincidencia que casi todo el mundo tenga la misma religión que sus padres? Y siempre resulta que es la religión correcta. Las religiones son cosa de familia. Si nos hubiéramos criado en la antigua Grecia, todos adoraríamos a Zeus y Apolo. Si hubiéramos nacido vikingos adoraríamos a Wotan y Thor. ¿Cómo es posible? A través del adoctrinamiento infantil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Childhood, Parent

• Si eres religioso, es muy probable que tu religión sea la de tus padres. Si has nacido en Arkansas y crees que el cristianismo es verdadero y el islam falso (sabiendo perfectamente que pensarías lo contrario si hubieras nacido en Afganistán), eres víctima de un adoctrinamiento infantil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Thinking, Opposites

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

  Richard Dawkins

  Childhood, Crime, Teach

• In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Skulls, Childhood, Parent

• 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

• Supongo que si nos remontamos a nuestra primera infancia, aceptamos todo lo que la gente nos cuenta, y eso incluye una fuerte dosis de irracionalidad: nos hablan de las hadas de los dientes y de Papá Noel y esas cosas.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christmas, Father, People

  "Darwin's child". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

• I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Childhood, Stories

• Entiendo a la gente cuando dice que se destruye la magia de la infancia si se fomenta demasiado el cuestionamiento escéptico.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Childhood, Magic

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