Richard Dawkins Quotes
I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn't exist.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
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