Richard Dawkins Quote

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television? By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.


The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)


It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that...

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that...

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that...

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that...