Richard_Dawkins - voiced quotes and phrases (Talkycards)

Richard Dawkins

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

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Are there things about the universe that will be forever beyond our grasp, but not beyond the grasp of some superior intelligence? Are there things about the universe that are, in principle, ungraspable by any mind, however superior?

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We're now so used to the idea that the Earth spins, rather than the Sun moves across the sky, it's hard for us to realize what a shattering mental revolution that must have been.

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As an evolutionary biologist, I'd say this: our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude, of size and speed which our bodies operate at.

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Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.

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Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

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Richard Feynman compared the accuracy of quantum theories, experimental predictions, to specifying the width of North America to within one hair's breadth of accuracy.

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Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things, like crystals and rocks, are really almost entirely composed of empty space.

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Our ancestors never had to navigate through the cosmos at speeds close to the speed of light. If they had, our brains would be much better at understanding Einstein.

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Our lives are dominated by gravity, but are almost oblivious to the force of surface tension. A small insect would reverse these priorities.

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