About Quotes by Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

— Richard Dawkins

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

— Richard Dawkins

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

— Richard Dawkins

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to…

— Richard Dawkins

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

— 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

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

— Richard Dawkins

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

— Richard Dawkins

I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.

— Richard Dawkins

There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a…

— 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

I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses…

— Richard Dawkins

In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor…

— Richard Dawkins

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and…

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

— Richard Dawkins

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but…

— Richard Dawkins

If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them…

— Richard Dawkins