Has beens Quotes by Richard Dawkins

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.

— Richard Dawkins

This person should have been aborted years ago.

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

— Richard Dawkins

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

— Richard Dawkins

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

— Richard Dawkins

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get…

— Richard Dawkins

...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who…

— Richard Dawkins

Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a…

— Richard Dawkins

You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to…

— Richard Dawkins

Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way…

— Richard Dawkins

Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have…

— Richard Dawkins

When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of…

— Richard Dawkins

The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be…

— Richard Dawkins

Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been…

— Richard Dawkins

A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an…

— Richard Dawkins

For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are…

— Richard Dawkins

An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— 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

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.…

— Richard Dawkins

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus…

— Richard Dawkins

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken…

— Richard Dawkins

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its…

— 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

People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants…

— Richard Dawkins

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the…

— Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable…

— 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