Isaac Asimov ofera o ilustrare dramatica: este ca si cum toata materia din univers ar fi un bob de nisip, asezat in mijlocul unei camere goale cu lungimea, inaltimea si latimea de 32 km. Si totusi, in acelasi timp, este ca si cum acel bob unic de nisip a fost pulverizat intr-o mie de milioane de milioane de milioane de fragmente, pentru ca acesta e numarul aproximativ de stele din univers. Acestea sunt unele dintre faptele astronomiei si puteti vedea cat sunt de frumoase.
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RICHARD DAWKINS The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's a... RICHARD DAWKINS Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something ... RICHARD DAWKINS I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine... RICHARD DAWKINS George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden. RICHARD DAWKINS Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school i... RICHARD DAWKINS The Bible was written by fallible human beings. RICHARD DAWKINS All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time ... RICHARD DAWKINS [Evolution is] a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen... RICHARD DAWKINS God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs. RICHARD DAWKINS I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine... RICHARD DAWKINS I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious... RICHARD DAWKINS I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the po... RICHARD DAWKINS Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but the... RICHARD DAWKINS A good theory explains a lot but postulates little. RICHARD DAWKINS The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or... RICHARD DAWKINS The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri... RICHARD DAWKINS Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted... RICHARD DAWKINS God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the envir... RICHARD DAWKINS I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear abou... RICHARD DAWKINS What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views. RICHARD DAWKINS I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to refle... RICHARD DAWKINS Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. RICHARD DAWKINS Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of ... RICHARD DAWKINS The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, scienc... RICHARD DAWKINS If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against y... RICHARD DAWKINS The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will p... RICHARD DAWKINS I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of l... RICHARD DAWKINS There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. ... RICHARD DAWKINS Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it. RICHARD DAWKINS I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misuse... RICHARD DAWKINS In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I d... RICHARD DAWKINS Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. RICHARD DAWKINS I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite ... RICHARD DAWKINS Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions an... RICHARD DAWKINS The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the h... RICHARD DAWKINS It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, Lon... RICHARD DAWKINS There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young... RICHARD DAWKINS The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations ha... RICHARD DAWKINS There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides ... RICHARD DAWKINS A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.' RICHARD DAWKINS Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake... RICHARD DAWKINS If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing fo... RICHARD DAWKINS Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, ... RICHARD DAWKINS The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale RICHARD DAWKINS Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought,... RICHARD DAWKINS To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect o... RICHARD DAWKINS After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl... RICHARD DAWKINS I don't feel depressed. I feel elated. RICHARD DAWKINS I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the... RICHARD DAWKINS The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the... RICHARD DAWKINS The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our ... RICHARD DAWKINS I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there&... RICHARD DAWKINS Осьминог ничем не похож на мышь, а оба они сильно отлич�... RICHARD DAWKINS Некоторые критики ошибочно считают, что «Эгоистичный �... RICHARD DAWKINS We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules kno... RICHARD DAWKINS Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably non... RICHARD DAWKINS But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the na... RICHARD DAWKINS Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th... RICHARD DAWKINS Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could... RICHARD DAWKINS Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye wi... RICHARD DAWKINS A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of re... RICHARD DAWKINS The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two m... RICHARD DAWKINS It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some... RICHARD DAWKINS Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supp... RICHARD DAWKINS The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never ... RICHARD DAWKINS Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly depa... RICHARD DAWKINS Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consumin... RICHARD DAWKINS There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,... RICHARD DAWKINS The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose ... RICHARD DAWKINS Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independen... RICHARD DAWKINS If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You d... RICHARD DAWKINS