7 Richard Dawkins Quotes on Thinking

Richard Dawkins quotes on thinking

65. But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

73. I want to examine that dangerous thing that's common to Judaism and Christianity as well: the process of non-thinking called faith.

89. We should be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brain falls out.

98. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

107. There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

135. It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe.

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.