Richard Dawkins Quotes About House

• Imagínense los titulares que aparecerían si un biólogo marino descubriera una especie de delfín que tejiera grandes redes de pesca de malla intrincada, de veinte metros de diámetro. Sin embargo, damos por sentada una tela de araña, como una molestia en casa y no como una de las maravillas del mundo. Y pensemos en el revuelo que se armaría si Jane Goodall regresara del arroyo Gombe con fotografías de chimpancés salvajes construyendo sus propias casas, bien techadas y aisladas, con piedras cuidadosamente seleccionadas, unidas con esmero y argamasa. Sin embargo, las larvas de caddis, que hacen precisamente eso, sólo despiertan un interés pasajero.

  Richard Dawkins

  Marine, Thinking, Fishing

• A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years." And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? "Resign, Resign" is a much more likely response!

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Emotional, Self

  "Science, delusion and the appetite for wonder". www.edge.org. December 21, 1996.

• Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in criticisms of religion even clarity ceases to be a virtue and sounds like aggressive hostility. A politician may attack an opponent scathingly across the floor of the House and earn plaudits for his robust pugnacity. But let a soberly reasoning critic of religion employ what would in other contexts sound merely direct or forthright, and it will be described as a 'rant'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Book, House, Criticism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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