Richard Dawkins Childhood Quotations
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- Maurice Sendak
- Alice Miller
- Gaston Bachelard
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Charles Baudelaire
- Gloria Steinem
- Richard Dawkins
- Charles Lamb
- Graham Greene
- Hermann Hesse
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Michael Jackson
- Rodney Dangerfield
- Stephen King
- Alice Meynell
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Eugene Ionesco
- Flannery Oconnor
- Frank Mccourt
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Skulls Quotes
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.
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Running Quotes
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion. Religions run in families. If we'd been brought up in ancient Greece we would all be worshiping Zeus and Apollo. If we had been born Vikings we would be worshiping Wotan and Thor. How does this come about ? Through childhood indoctrination.
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Epidemics Quotes
The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).