Ideas Quotes by Richard Dawkins

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

— Richard Dawkins

“Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;”

— Richard Dawkins

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.

— Richard Dawkins

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

— Richard Dawkins

Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.

— Richard Dawkins

By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!

— Richard Dawkins

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things…

— Richard Dawkins

Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to…

— Richard Dawkins

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and…

— Richard Dawkins

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

— Richard Dawkins

What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will…

— Richard Dawkins

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

— Richard Dawkins

When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I…

— Richard Dawkins

I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But…

— Richard Dawkins

The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of…

— Richard Dawkins

If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.…

— Richard Dawkins

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us…

— Richard Dawkins

There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it…

— Richard Dawkins

Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it…

— 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

I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as…

— 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

It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the…

— Richard Dawkins

What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that…

— Richard Dawkins

Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here…

— Richard Dawkins

The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from…

— Richard Dawkins