Richard Dawkins Quotes

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

Was there to be any end to the gradual improvement in the techniques and artifices used by the replicators to ensure their own continuation in the world? There would be plenty of time for improvement....

We are in one galaxy called the Milky Way. When you look at the Milky Way’s next-door neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, your telescope is a time machine taking you back two and a half million years. Th...

We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution makes it even clearer. But it doesn't. It is by no me...

You can’t get away with saying, ‘If you try to stop me from insulting homosexuals it violates my freedom of prejudice.’ But you can get away with saying, ‘It violates my freedom of religion.’ What, wh...

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

در دنیا آدم‌هایی هستند که ناامیدانه تلاش در نپذیرفتن تکامل داروینی دارند. به نظر می‌رسد آنها به سه گروه تقسیم می‌شوند، آنهایی که به دلایل مذهبی می‌خواهند تکامل دروغ باشد. آنهایی که دلیلی برای انکار تک...

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.

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

There are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-...

A consequentialist or utilitarian is likely to approach the abortion question in a very different way, by trying to weigh up suffering. Does the embryo suffer? (Presumably not if it is aborted before...

Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it!

Anyone can popularize science if he oversimplifies.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at human...

Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via spe...

God likes to have his free lunch and be it too.

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.