Kind Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

— Richard Dawkins

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be…

— Richard Dawkins

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

— Richard Dawkins

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

— Richard Dawkins

Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners…

— Richard Dawkins

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

— Richard Dawkins

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And…

— Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise…

— Richard Dawkins

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex…

— 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

Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have…

— Richard Dawkins

Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive…

— Richard Dawkins

For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos…

— Richard Dawkins

I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face.…

— Richard Dawkins

“Next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?'…

— Richard Dawkins

Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A…

— Richard Dawkins

I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an…

— Richard Dawkins

People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep…

— Richard Dawkins

It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means…

— Richard Dawkins

Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is…

— Richard Dawkins

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely…

— Richard Dawkins

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have…

— 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

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

— Richard Dawkins

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental…

— Richard Dawkins

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said…

— Richard Dawkins

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not…

— Richard Dawkins

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible…

— Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that…

— Richard Dawkins

It is interesting - you find in the United States, there is a kind of anti-education hostility. It's the sort of Sarah…

— Richard Dawkins

Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take…

— Richard Dawkins

Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false…

— Richard Dawkins

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to…

— Richard Dawkins