Should Quotes by Richard Dawkins

This person should have been aborted years ago.

— Richard Dawkins

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

— Richard Dawkins

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

— Richard Dawkins

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think…

— Richard Dawkins

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over…

— Richard Dawkins

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged…

— Richard Dawkins

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass…

— Richard Dawkins

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

— Richard Dawkins

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil,…

— Richard Dawkins

In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at…

— Richard Dawkins

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

— Richard Dawkins

How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on…

— Richard Dawkins

That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the…

— Richard Dawkins

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs…

— Richard Dawkins

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a…

— Richard Dawkins

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it…

— Richard Dawkins

I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we…

— Richard Dawkins

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in…

— 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

I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and…

— 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

If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's…

— Richard Dawkins

If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless…

— Richard Dawkins

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes…

— Richard Dawkins

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are…

— Richard Dawkins

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

— Richard Dawkins

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure…

— Richard Dawkins

If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise…

— Richard Dawkins

I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that…

— Richard Dawkins

We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead…

— Richard Dawkins

Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used…

— Richard Dawkins

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

— Richard Dawkins

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to…

— Richard Dawkins

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74%…

— Richard Dawkins

Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some…

— 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

Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime…

— Richard Dawkins