Books Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private…

— Richard Dawkins

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life."…

— Richard Dawkins

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

— Richard Dawkins

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to…

— Richard Dawkins

“The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give…

— Richard Dawkins

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the…

— Richard Dawkins

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

— Richard Dawkins

The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul…

— Richard Dawkins

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of…

— Richard Dawkins

“I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such…

— Richard Dawkins

I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe…

— Richard Dawkins

Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say…

— Richard Dawkins

“The behaviour of physical, nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it, which…

— Richard Dawkins

“on page 96 of my hero Peter Medawar’s book The Limits of Science: ‘I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers…

— Richard Dawkins

They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already…

— Richard Dawkins

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical…

— Richard Dawkins

Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so…

— 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

“A foreign publisher of my first book [ The Selfish Gene ] confessed that he could not sleep for three nights after…

— Richard Dawkins

“It is all too easy to confuse fundamentalism with passion. I may well appear passionate when i defend evolution against a fundamentalist…

— Richard Dawkins

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically…

— Richard Dawkins

I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and…

— Richard Dawkins

“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of…

— Richard Dawkins

“decade after the first edition of this book was published, Yan Wong and I met in the fitting surroundings of the Oxford…

— Richard Dawkins

“Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. Teaching children that unquestioned faith is a virtue…

— Richard Dawkins

“unlike, say, the sun, or the rainbow, or earthquakes, the fascinating world of the very small never came to the notice of…

— Richard Dawkins

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book…

— Richard Dawkins

I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.

— Richard Dawkins

“Indeed, adherents of scriptural authority show distressingly little curiosity about the (normally highly dubious) historical origins of their holy books.”

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

— Richard Dawkins

“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young…

— Richard Dawkins

“As Mark Twain cuttingly remarked, if you removed all occurrences of the phrase ‘And it came to pass’, the Book of Mormon…

— Richard Dawkins

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said…

— Richard Dawkins

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

— Richard Dawkins

“most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.”

— Richard Dawkins

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the…

— Richard Dawkins

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast…

— Richard Dawkins

You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as…

— Richard Dawkins