Children Quotes by Richard Dawkins

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

— Richard Dawkins

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

— Richard Dawkins

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

— Richard Dawkins

The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'

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I guess there are some rights of parents with what they choose their children to learn, but I'm biased in favor of…

— Richard Dawkins

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous…

— Richard Dawkins

“Shouldn’t children be taught critical, sceptical thinking from an early age? Shouldn’t we all be taught to doubt, to weigh up plausibility,…

— Richard Dawkins

It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true.…

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...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than…

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

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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work…

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In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of…

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I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of…

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With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are…

— 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…

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“The sin of Adam and Eve is thought to be have passed down the male line - transmitted in the semen according…

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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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Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's…

— Richard Dawkins

Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children,…

— Richard Dawkins

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical…

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Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for…

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“If you feel trapped in the religion of your upbringing, it would be worth asking yourself how this came about. The answer…

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“Our society, including the non-religious sector, has accepted the preposterous idea that it is normal and right to indoctrinate tiny children in…

— Richard Dawkins

“Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it…

— Richard Dawkins

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose…

— Richard Dawkins

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to…

— Richard Dawkins

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

— Richard Dawkins

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

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Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do…

— Richard Dawkins

“If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect…

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“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

“Segregated schools. Children are educated, again often from a very early age, with members of a religious in-group and seperately from children…

— Richard Dawkins

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at…

— Richard Dawkins