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51 Richard Dawkins Quotes & Sayings
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51 Richard Dawkins Quotes & Sayings
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins
About
Atheists
Believed
Ever
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins
Atheists
Authority
Automatically
Beliefs
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Richard Dawkins
Championship
Chess
Computer
Forward
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
Against
Am
Because
Religion
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
Because
Belief
Evaluate
Even
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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Richard Dawkins
Agnostic
Any
Bottom
Evidence
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Richard Dawkins
Brains
Drop
Means
Our
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Richard Dawkins
Altruism
Because
Born
Generosity
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One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
Richard Dawkins
Answers
Really
Religion
Satisfied
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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
About
Belief
Institutions
Passage
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins
Blind
Discouraging
Expedient
Faith
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
Richard Dawkins
About
Doubt
Earth
Evolution
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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Richard Dawkins
Complex
Difficult
Explain
Improbable
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Richard Dawkins
Colossal
Essence
Life
Scale
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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins
Culture
Environment
Exists
Form
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I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
Richard Dawkins
Anybody
Believes
Either
Ignorant
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Richard Dawkins
Love
Romantic
Poetry
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My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
Richard Dawkins
Bit
Decision
Default
Drift
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I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
Richard Dawkins
Age
Confirmed
Prep
School
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Love
Words
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I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
Richard Dawkins
About
Fairy
Know
Magic
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Age
Existence
First
Intelligent
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Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Richard Dawkins
About
Among
Anything
Certain
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We are a very, very unusual species.
Richard Dawkins
Species
Unusual
Very
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
Richard Dawkins
Banning
Course
Intolerant
Never
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
Richard Dawkins
Based
Blindly
Book
Evidence
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Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
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Christ
Disagree
Followers
Love
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Aid
Fine
Get
Metaphors
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Natural selection is anything but random.
Richard Dawkins
Anything
Natural
Random
Selection
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The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.
Richard Dawkins
Consolation
Feeling
Inside
Nice
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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
Richard Dawkins
Atheism
Evolution
Feeling
Led
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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
Richard Dawkins
Accept
Far
Grander
Imagine
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The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
Richard Dawkins
America
Enlightenment
Reason
Schools
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
Richard Dawkins
Afterlife
Consoling
Idea
Immensely
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I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
Richard Dawkins
Above
Average
Career
Medium
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Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.
Richard Dawkins
Could
Coverage
Improved
Item
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A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
Believe
Delusion
Despite
Evidence
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Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.
Richard Dawkins
About
Among
Argue
Critics
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Evolution
Future
Looks
Never
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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
Richard Dawkins
Am
Darwinian
Exist
Explaining
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Give
Had
Mysterious
Origin
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How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?
Richard Dawkins
Because
Believe
Comforting
Finds
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We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
Richard Dawkins
Allowed
Been
Brought
Criticise
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I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.
Richard Dawkins
Anglican
Certain
Church
Country
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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.
Richard Dawkins
About
Absolutely
American
Being
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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.
Richard Dawkins
Better
Book
Cambridge
Chosen
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Richard Dawkins
Against
Childhood
Crime
Religion
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We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Richard Dawkins
Cannot
Course
Disprove
Fairies
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.
Richard Dawkins
Admit
Ape
Like
Realise
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
Richard Dawkins
Beautiful
More
Often
Out
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Richard Dawkins Quotes & Sayings