理查德·道金斯
有“達(dá)爾文的羅威納犬”的稱(chēng)號(hào)
我們觀察到的宇宙恰好具有我們所期望的特性，如果從根本上說(shuō)，沒(méi)有設(shè)計(jì)，沒(méi)有目的，沒(méi)有邪惡也沒(méi)有善良，只有盲目的、無(wú)情的冷漠。
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease.
自然界中每年的痛苦總量超出了所有體面的思考。在我寫(xiě)這句話(huà)的一分鐘內(nèi)，成千上萬(wàn)的動(dòng)物被活生生地吃掉，許多其他動(dòng)物在逃命，因恐懼而嗚咽，其他動(dòng)物則被寄生蟲(chóng)從內(nèi)部慢慢吞噬，成千上萬(wàn)的動(dòng)物因饑餓、口渴和疾病而死亡。
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
The selfish gene theory is not a theory about selfishness in the everyday sense. It is a theory about the evolution of behavior.
自私基因理論并不是關(guān)于日常意義上的自私的理論。它是關(guān)于行為進(jìn)化的理論。
The universe is not queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
宇宙并不比我們想象的更奇怪，而是比我們能夠想象的更奇怪。
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
信仰是偉大的逃避，是逃避思考和評(píng)估證據(jù)需要的偉大借口。信仰是在缺乏證據(jù)的情況下，甚至可能是因?yàn)槿狈ψC據(jù)而相信。
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
生命的本質(zhì)是統(tǒng)計(jì)上的不可能性，規(guī)模巨大。
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.