Quotes by Richard Dawkins

About Richard Dawkins:

Clinton Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
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We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.

Richard Dawkins

The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than others, because people like them, because they're popular, because they're catchy or whatever it migh...

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At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

Richard Dawkins

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

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I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

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I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

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I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

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A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

Richard Dawkins

George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.

Richard Dawkins

I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.

Richard Dawkins

Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.

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In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.

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If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

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There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.

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The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.

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Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

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The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

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

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Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

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I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

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Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.

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Author Bio

  • NameRichard Dawkins
  • DescriptionEnglish ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
  • AliasesClinton Richard Dawkins
  • BornMarch 26, 1941
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionEvolutionary Biologist; Ethologist; Science Writer; Popularizer Of Science; Essayist; Theoretical Biologist; Epistemologist; Sociobiologist
  • WorksThe Selfish Gene
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Kistler Prize; Michael Faraday Prize; International Cosmos Prize; Lewis Thomas Prize; Shakespeare Prize; Humanist Of The Year