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Quotes from The Enemies of Reason — Richard Dawkins

born 1941 England

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

The Enemies of Reason (2007)

Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence.

The Enemies of Reason (2007)

Science is the poetry of reality.

The Enemies of Reason (2007)

Reason has built the modern world. It is a precious but also a fragile thing, which can be corroded by apparently harmless irrationality. We must favor verifiable evidence over private feeling. Otherwise we leave ourselves vulnerable to those who would obscure the truth.

The Enemies of Reason (2007)

So whereabouts in my body might there be a black hole?

The Enemies of Reason (2007)

The word 'mundane' has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin 'mundus', meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

The Enemies of Reason (2007)

Isn't Deepak Chopra just exploiting Quantum jargon as plausible-sounding hocus pocus?

The Enemies of Reason (2007)

If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests.

The Enemies of Reason (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Dawkins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.