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title: "11 Intelligent Quotes By Richard Dawkins"
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> [American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/american-political-opportunities-are-loaded-against-those-who-are/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/to-put-it-bluntly-american-political-opportunities-are-heavily-loaded/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/people-believe-the-only-alternative-to-randomness-is-intelligent/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/intelligent-life-on-a-planet-comes-of-age-when-it-first-works-out-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/organizing-atheists-is-a-bit-like-herding-cats-they-are-on-the-whole/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-more-statistically-improbable-a-thing-is-the-less-we-can-believe-2/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/when-we-started-out-and-we-were-talking-about-the-origins-of-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/such-is-the-breathtaking-speciesism-of-our-christian-inspired/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/if-complex-organisms-demand-an-explanation-so-does-a-complex-designer/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/an-intelligent-couple-can-read-their-darwin-and-know-that-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/for-centuries-the-most-powerful-argument-for-god-s-existence-from-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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## Other authors on Intelligent

## More by Richard Dawkins

> [At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/at-the-deepest-level-all-living-things-that-have-ever-been-looked-at/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-word-mundane-has-come-to-mean-boring-and-dull-and-it-really/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-animals-are-the-most-complicated-things-in-the-known-universe/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-fundamentalist-kurt-wise-proclaims-that-all-the-evidence-in-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-have-found-it-an-amusing-strategy-when-asked-whether-i-am-an/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/religions-do-make-claims-about-the-universe-the-same-kinds-of-claims/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 disjointed documents,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/much-of-the-bible-is-not-systematically-evil-but-just-plain-weird-as/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-recurrent-laryngeal-nerve-which-runs-from-the-head-to-the-voice/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 money-making rip-offs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-roman-catholic-church-is-an-institution-for-whose-gains-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-understand-what-our-own-selfish-genes-are-up-to-because-we-may/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/what-s-going-to-happen-when-i-die-i-may-be-buried-or-i-may-be/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/or-why-it-is-acceptable-to-train-fast-runners-and-high-jumpers-but/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-have-seen-that-living-things-are-too-improbable-and-too/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [“We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-will-not-go-quietly-away-if-in-the-future-that-requires-violence/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

> [It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/it-s-a-truly-disgusting-idea-that-the-creator-of-the-universe-capable/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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