Top 292 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

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

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

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

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.