Richard Dawkins Quotes about Understanding

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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Richard Dawkins

Atheist, Understanding, Religion

Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

Richard Dawkins

Giving, Understanding, Tutorial

"The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Richard Dawkins

Feelings, Understanding, Atheism

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

Richard Dawkins

Thinking, People, Understanding

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

Richard Dawkins

Understanding, Humanity, Alive

Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.420, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

Richard Dawkins

Understanding, Way, Sometimes

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.

Richard Dawkins

Technology, Understanding, Mind

"Life: A gene-centric view". Craig Venter and Richard Dawkins: A Conversation in Munich, www.edge.org. January 23, 2008.

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply assume in order to derive the rest of their understanding ... have to be assumed. You can't provide a rationale for why those numbers are there. Physicists have calculated that if any of these numbers was a little bit different, the universe as we know it wouldn't exist.

Richard Dawkins

Numbers, Order, Understanding

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

Richard Dawkins

Believe, Giving, Understanding

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

Richard Dawkins

Understanding

Source: inters.org