Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

#fine #get #metaphors #sometimes #understanding

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#decision #default #drift #less #more

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#biology #interest #much #philosophical #pretty

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#big #big bang #day #may #one day

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#coverage #improved #item #need #news

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#had #mysterious #origin #pretty #rise

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#clarity #desire #i #i think #mistake

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#brains #drop #means #open-minded #our

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#consoling #idea #immensely #loved #loved ones

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. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #cop-out #evade #evaluate #even