Quote #136

I'm a friendly enough sort of chap ... I'm not a hostile person to meet. But I think it's important to realise that when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

More from Richard Dawkins

  1. It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe.
  2. ...what I am doing is going along with the fact that I live in a society where meat eating is accepted as the norm, and it requires a level…
  3. Religions do make claims about the universe - the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
  4. Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators.
  5. I really want to say that there are no major disagreements ... I think the tendency of American intellectuals to learn their evolution from…
  6. It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.
  7. Very often in science one finds that there are ideas in the air, and lots of people hold them, but they don't even realise they hold them. …
  8. Hot on the heels of its magnanimous pardoning of Galileo, the Vatican has now moved with even more lightning speed to recognise the truth o…

All Richard Dawkins quotes