Richard Dawkins Quotes

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
Natural selection is anything but random.
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
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, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.
Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.
Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.
People like to trace their ancestry.
People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.
People say I'm shrill and strident.
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
Placebos work.
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