Who Quotes by Richard Dawkins

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

— Richard Dawkins

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

— Richard Dawkins

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

— Richard Dawkins

To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

— Richard Dawkins

I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.

— Richard Dawkins

How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

— Richard Dawkins

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an…

— Richard Dawkins

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

— Richard Dawkins

The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul…

— Richard Dawkins

I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,…

— 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

There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things.…

— Richard Dawkins

I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots…

— Richard Dawkins

Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't…

— Richard Dawkins

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

— Richard Dawkins