Tuesday, April 29, 2008 | print version

Richard Dawkins Lecture

at Chan Centre

Richard Dawkins speaks at UBC

The CMDE and the Faculty of Arts are co-hosting a talk by Richard Dawkins at UBC. The talk will be at 2:00 PM, April 29th and will be in the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, on the UBC Point Grey campus.

All advance tickets have now been distributed. There will be a stand-by line set up at 12:00PM on April 29th at the Chan Centre. Any tickets returned will be given to the stand-by line. Patrons from the stand-by line will be seated if there are any empty seats left at 2:00PM.

Ticketholders, please make sure you arrive well in advance of the 2:00PM start time, since no shows' seats will be given away at 2:00PM.

Q&A and book signing to follow the lecture.

For more information go to:
http://www.cmde.science.ubc.ca/news.html

Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Time: 02:00 PM

Location:
Chan Centre
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 | Permalink

Quotes of Note:

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

Richard Dawkins

"To enslave a man, then dope him to make him content! Do you call THAT a solace? . . . The honest fact is that the greatest hindrance to the progress of the Negro is that same dope that was shot into him during slavery. . . . The slogan of the Negro devotee is: Take the world but give me Jesus, and the white man strikes an eager bargain with him. . . . Another fact — there are far too many Negro preachers. Religion is the most fruitful medium for exploiting this already exploited group. As I said, the majority of the sharpers, who among the whites would go into other fields, go, in this case, to the ministry."

Joel Augustus Rogers

"Hot on the heels of its magnanimous pardoning of Galileo, the Vatican has now moved with even more lightning speed to recognise the truth of Darwinism."

Richard Dawkins

"Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading."

Richard Dawkins

"Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that they constitute a (meaningless) pattern when seen from a certain (not particularly special) place in the galaxy (here)."

Richard Dawkins