World Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

— Richard Dawkins

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

— 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

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.

— Richard Dawkins

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.

— Richard Dawkins

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

— 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

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will…

— Richard Dawkins

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not…

— Richard Dawkins

If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing…

— Richard Dawkins

What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam…

— Richard Dawkins

We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We…

— 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

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

— Richard Dawkins

Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do…

— Richard Dawkins

The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The…

— Richard Dawkins

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it…

— 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

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl…

— Richard Dawkins

If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding…

— Richard Dawkins

Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs…

— Richard Dawkins

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those…

— Richard Dawkins

Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing…

— 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

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are…

— 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 world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it…

— Richard Dawkins

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

— Richard Dawkins

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

— Richard Dawkins

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .

— Richard Dawkins

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in…

— Richard Dawkins

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for…

— Richard Dawkins

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has…

— Richard Dawkins