Top 292 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

About Richard Dawkins

These are some quotes by English author Richard Dawkins Scientist, who was born on March 26, 1941.

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

Richard Dawkins

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.

Richard Dawkins

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

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

Richard Dawkins

Evolution never looks to the future.

Evolution never looks to the future.

Richard Dawkins

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

Richard Dawkins

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

Richard Dawkins

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

Richard Dawkins

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Richard Dawkins

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.

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

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

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

Richard Dawkins

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