Richard Dawkins

Religion: Together we can find the cure.

— Richard Dawkins

The less you think, the more you believe.

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

— Richard Dawkins

It's about time we start criticizing faith.

— Richard Dawkins

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution never looks to the future.

— Richard Dawkins

I love romantic poetry.

— Richard Dawkins

We are a very, very unusual species.

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

— Richard Dawkins

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

— Richard Dawkins

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

— Richard Dawkins

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.”

— Richard Dawkins

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

— Richard Dawkins

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

— Richard Dawkins

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large…

— 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

“In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— 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

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

— Richard Dawkins

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person…

— Richard Dawkins

I've seen [Lalla Ward] episodes of "Doctor Who." They're good, at least partly because the scripts were written by Douglas Adams.

— Richard Dawkins

If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible…

— 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

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

— Richard Dawkins

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave…

— Richard Dawkins

It is interesting - you find in the United States, there is a kind of anti-education hostility. It's the sort of Sarah…

— Richard Dawkins

The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after…

— Richard Dawkins

Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains?…

— Richard Dawkins

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't…

— 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

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

— Richard Dawkins

Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in…

— Richard Dawkins

Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point…

— Richard Dawkins

“The thing I notice first about such people is their wonderful Christian charity. What kind of an electorate could, term after term,…

— Richard Dawkins

“Hartung tells of a horrifying study by the Israeli psychologist George Tamarin. Tamarin presented to more than a thousand Israeli schoolchildren, aged…

— Richard Dawkins

We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a…

— 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