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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It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

Richard Dawkins

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

Richard Dawkins

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

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It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.

Richard Dawkins

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Richard Dawkins

I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.

Richard Dawkins

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

Richard Dawkins

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

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

I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

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I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.

Richard Dawkins

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

Richard Dawkins

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Richard Dawkins

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

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If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

Richard Dawkins

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

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If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

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For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

Richard Dawkins

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

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I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.

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I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

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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