Thinking Quotes by Richard Dawkins

I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low,

— Richard Dawkins

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...

— Richard Dawkins

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

— Richard Dawkins

The less you think, the more you believe.

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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

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I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

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I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.

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In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong…

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There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore…

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I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

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

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I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of…

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It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be…

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Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn…

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If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born…

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

— Richard Dawkins

Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody…

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If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,…

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It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,…

— Richard Dawkins

It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the…

— Richard Dawkins

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

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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…

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I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain…

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I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of…

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I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of,…

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Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book,…

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

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Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there…

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I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have…

— Richard Dawkins

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

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Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose…

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I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

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If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise…

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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

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I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an…

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There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And…

— Richard Dawkins

No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to…

— Richard Dawkins