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We have all been guilty of bending over backwards to be nice to an unworthy but powerful opponent,
— Richard Dawkins
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
— Richard Dawkins
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
— Richard Dawkins
I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.
— Richard Dawkins
Religion: Together we can find the cure.
— Richard Dawkins
I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.
— Richard Dawkins
The less you think, the more you believe.
— Richard Dawkins
I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on mine!
— Richard Dawkins
I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.
— Richard Dawkins
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
— Richard Dawkins
The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.
— Richard Dawkins
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.
— Richard Dawkins
There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.
— Richard Dawkins
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.
— Richard Dawkins
It touches every aspect of our social lives, our loving and hating, fighting and cooperating, giving and stealing, our greed and our generosity.
— Richard Dawkins
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
— Richard Dawkins
I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
— Richard Dawkins
All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.
— Richard Dawkins
It is raining DNA outside.
— Richard Dawkins
Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on.
— Richard Dawkins
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
— Richard Dawkins
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
— Richard Dawkins
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
— Richard Dawkins
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
— Richard Dawkins
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
— Richard Dawkins
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
— Richard Dawkins
Non-existent male? I suppose that, in the ditzily
— Richard Dawkins
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
— Richard Dawkins
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
— Richard Dawkins
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
— Richard Dawkins
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
— Richard Dawkins
Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.
— Richard Dawkins
Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.
— Richard Dawkins
Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.
— Richard Dawkins
Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
— Richard Dawkins
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.
— Richard Dawkins
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe
— Richard Dawkins
True warfare in which large rival armies fight to the death is known only in man and in social insects.
— Richard Dawkins
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
— Richard Dawkins
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
— Richard Dawkins
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.
— Richard Dawkins
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.
— Richard Dawkins
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.
— Richard Dawkins
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
— Richard Dawkins
What is the colour of abstraction? What is the smell of hope?
— Richard Dawkins
Do we really need policing - whether by God or by each other - in order to stop us from behaving in a selfish and criminal manner?
— Richard Dawkins
In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is benefiting.
— Richard Dawkins
Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away.
— Richard Dawkins
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
— Richard Dawkins
Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;
— Richard Dawkins
There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.
— Richard Dawkins
If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.
— Richard Dawkins
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
— Richard Dawkins
We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.
— Richard Dawkins
The child has no way of knowing what's good information.
— Richard Dawkins
I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.
— Richard Dawkins
The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.
— Richard Dawkins
All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.
— Richard Dawkins
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
— Richard Dawkins
I will not utter falsehoods but I have no objection to making meaningless statements.
— Richard Dawkins
The most terrible wars of history, the two major wars of the century, have nothing to do with religions.
— Richard Dawkins
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
— Richard Dawkins
We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence
— Richard Dawkins
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.
— Richard Dawkins
My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.
— Richard Dawkins
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
— Richard Dawkins
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
— Richard Dawkins
giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.
— Richard Dawkins
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.
— Richard Dawkins
The Bible may be an arresting and
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins
poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins
Anyone can popularize science if he oversimplifies.
— Richard Dawkins
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
— Richard Dawkins
In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.
— Richard Dawkins
This person should have been aborted years ago.
— Richard Dawkins
If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?
— Richard Dawkins
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
— Richard Dawkins
God likes to have his free lunch and be it too.
— Richard Dawkins
Unweaving the Rainbow
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
— Richard Dawkins
We needn't bother with exactly what 'electric charge' means here.
— Richard Dawkins
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
— Richard Dawkins
At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
— Richard Dawkins
Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity?
— Richard Dawkins
But perhaps life has a tendency to converge on a pathway, something like a magnetic pull that draws it back despite temporary deviations.
— Richard Dawkins
You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.
— Peaches Geldof
There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.
— Richard Dawkins
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.
— Richard Dawkins
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.
— Richard Dawkins
Science is the poetry of reality.
— Richard Dawkins