Showing posts with label Richard Dawkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Dawkins. Show all posts
The ability to play gracefully with ideas and being alert
Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins in Conversation
"The ability to play gracefully with ideas..."
Oscar Wilde
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”
“O limite do homem deve exceder a sua compreensão. Ou para que existe o céu?”
Robert Browning
“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell
Knowledge vs belief and joking
Ricky Gervais and Richard Dawkins in Conversation
"If you could meet your 200 million great grande father, you would eat him with a slice of lemon and tartar sauce."
Richard Dawkins
"Particularly in comedy, most offense is taken when people mistake the subject of the joke, with the target".
Ricky Gervais [49:28]
on the invisible forces / the placebo effect
"Biological research is revealing that inheritance works in different ways from the standard DNA in inheritance pattern [epigenetics]."
Sobre Bruce Lipton
Darwinian medecine Richard Dawkins and Nicholas Humphreys:
Richard Dawkins no seu melhor / to rock the boat or not to rock the boat
We are all atheist about most of the gods that humanity has ever beleived in. Some of us just go one god further.
Não confundir Naturalista com Nudista ou Pediatra com Pedófilo!
Proposta para não gerar respostas fóbicas e histéricas:
nontheist = atheist + agnostic
Links:
Mensa
Douglas Adams
O método científico / um passo mais à frente
Richard Dawkins
As vantagens de chegar à conclusão que estamos errados.
