Richard Dawkins Quotes

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  Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Belief, Power, Religion, Truth

  Tags in Time, Turning
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  It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Absolutely, Ignorant
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  I don’t give a damn for anyone’s opinion. I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversity
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  There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Meaning, Philosophy
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  Educational systems that teach boys only memorisation of one particular book, and teach girls nothing at all, are not calculated to breed success in science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Particular, Educational
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  The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator. A God. Is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in God

  Tags in Supernatural
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  I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Satisfied
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  It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Difficult, Faith

• “Chance” is just a word expressing ignorance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

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

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith

• However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

• It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

• We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

• There is a better reason for studying zoology than its possible ‘usefulness’, and the general likeableness of animals. This reason is that we animals are the most complicated and perfectly designed pieces of machinery in the known universe. Put it like that, and it is hard to see why anybody studies anything else!

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

• One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Religion

• It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mathematics, School, Ignorance, Literature, Science

• The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Precisely, Purpose, Universe, Science

Richard Dawkins (94)

Birth:	26th March, 1941
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Ethologist, Professor, Writer

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Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.

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