Top 292 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.

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.

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.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

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.

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.