People Quotes by Richard Dawkins

People say I'm shrill and strident.

— Richard Dawkins

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

— Richard Dawkins

I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.

— Richard Dawkins

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

— Richard Dawkins

People like to trace their ancestry.

— Richard Dawkins

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental…

— Richard Dawkins

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

— Richard Dawkins

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

— Richard Dawkins

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

— Richard Dawkins

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

— Richard Dawkins

I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

— Richard Dawkins

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

— Richard Dawkins

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify…

— Richard Dawkins

If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions…

— Richard Dawkins

Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of…

— Richard Dawkins

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever…

— Richard Dawkins

People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance."…

— Richard Dawkins

Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.

— Richard Dawkins

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose…

— Richard Dawkins

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things.…

— Richard Dawkins

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on…

— Richard Dawkins

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising…

— Richard Dawkins

The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded… I fear that, if the…

— Richard Dawkins

Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so…

— Richard Dawkins

People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants…

— Richard Dawkins

It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty…

— Richard Dawkins

The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it?…

— Richard Dawkins

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken…

— Richard Dawkins

Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is…

— Richard Dawkins

People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves…

— Richard Dawkins

I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to…

— Richard Dawkins

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

— Richard Dawkins

Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born

— Richard Dawkins

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

— Richard Dawkins

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually…

— Richard Dawkins

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life."…

— Richard Dawkins

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

— Richard Dawkins

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

— Richard Dawkins

I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

— Richard Dawkins