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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There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

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I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

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To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

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There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

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I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.

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I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt.

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Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.

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In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.

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I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

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My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

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In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous - though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.

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The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real.

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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

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Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

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People like to trace their ancestry.

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

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

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I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

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Religion is a distraction from true education.

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There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

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It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to scienc...

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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