Science Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.

— Richard Dawkins

“science cannot even make probability judgements on”

— Richard Dawkins

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

— Richard Dawkins

Public sharing is an important part of science.

— Richard Dawkins

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

— Richard Dawkins

“Religion is a distraction from true education.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance”

— Richard Dawkins

Science is the poetry of reality.

— Richard Dawkins

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

— Richard Dawkins

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.

— Richard Dawkins

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

— Richard Dawkins

“Hijacking by pseudoscience and bad science fiction is a threat to our legitimate sense of wonder.”

— Richard Dawkins

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

— Richard Dawkins

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

— 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

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

— Richard Dawkins

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that…

— Richard Dawkins

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to…

— Richard Dawkins

I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down,…

— Richard Dawkins

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where…

— Richard Dawkins

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but…

— Richard Dawkins

“Religion enjoys astonishing privileges in our societies, privileges denied to almost any other special interest group one can think of-and certainly denied…

— Richard Dawkins

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can…

— Richard Dawkins

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

— Richard Dawkins

I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes…

— Richard Dawkins

“A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am…

— Richard Dawkins

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists…

— Richard Dawkins

“And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible…

— Richard Dawkins

“Selection has favoured genes that cooperate with others. In the fierce competition for scarce resources, in the relentless struggle to eat other…

— Richard Dawkins

“But why, in any case, do we so readily accept the idea that the one thing you must do if you want…

— Richard Dawkins

We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what…

— Richard Dawkins

Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been…

— Richard Dawkins

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes…

— Richard Dawkins

“... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved…

— Richard Dawkins

“Similarly, we can all agree that science's entitlement to advise us on moral values is problematic, to say the least. but does…

— Richard Dawkins

“Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,…

— Richard Dawkins

If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God…

— Richard Dawkins

“As Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot…

— Richard Dawkins

“It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only…

— Richard Dawkins