The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.
("The God Delusion")
More Quotes from Richard Dawkins:
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.Richard Dawkins
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
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Richard Dawkins
Dawkins Law of the Conservation of Difficulty states that obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity
Richard Dawkins
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Richard Dawkins
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Children Quotes, Purposes QuotesBased on Keywords: teleologists, teleology
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Karl Kraus
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
William Stafford