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.

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

Richard Dawkins

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

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

Richard Dawkins

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

Richard Dawkins

A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'

A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'

Richard Dawkins

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

Richard Dawkins

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Richard Dawkins

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.

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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