Richard Dawkins Quotes

You could give a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also c...

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

Religion is a distraction from true education.

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

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 fund...

Fundamentalist religion is hell-bent on ruining the scientific education of countless thousands of innocent, well-meaning, eager young minds. Non-fundamentalist, sensible religion may not be doing tha...

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as fu...

The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

If a curiously selective plague came along and killed all people of intermediate height, 'tall' and 'short' would come to have just as precise a meaning as 'bird' or 'mammal'. The same is true of huma...

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to mix the two together. According to the above, the...

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,...

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe th...

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random patterns, as we know from scientific evidence, on top of the numerous l...