Richard Dawkins quotes

Richard Dawkins is an eminent English biologist, ethologist, and author known for his works on evolutionary biology. With a strong online presence, Dawkins has become a renowned figure in popularizing science. His bestseller "The Selfish Gene" revolutionized our understanding of evolutionary theory. Dawkins' insightful perspectives on atheism and religion, notably in "The God Delusion," have sparked debates globally. As a highly sought-after speaker, he continues to engage audiences with his rational approach. Explore more about Richard Dawkins, his books, and his views on science and religion on his official website.

Failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it.

- Richard Dawkins

A medieval cathedral could consume a hundred man-centuries in its construction, yet was never used as a dwelling, or for any recognizably useful purpose.

- Richard Dawkins

Bush presided over more executions in Texas than any other governor in the state’s history, averaging one death every nine days.

- Richard Dawkins

It is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

- Richard Dawkins

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

- Richard Dawkins

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

- Richard Dawkins

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

- Richard Dawkins

Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god – from Ra to Shiva – in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.

- Richard Dawkins

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

- Richard Dawkins

Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.

- Richard Dawkins

Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.

- Richard Dawkins

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

- Richard Dawkins

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

- Richard Dawkins

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

- Richard Dawkins

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

- Richard Dawkins

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

- Richard Dawkins

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing – a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

- Richard Dawkins

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

- Richard Dawkins

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.

- Richard Dawkins

Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.

- Richard Dawkins

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

- Richard Dawkins

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

- Richard Dawkins

Blasphemy is a victimless crime.

- Richard Dawkins

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

- Richard Dawkins

Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.

- Richard Dawkins

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

- Richard Dawkins

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

- Richard Dawkins

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

- Richard Dawkins

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

- Richard Dawkins

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

- Richard Dawkins