Richard Dawkins Quotes

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.
To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.
We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.
We are a very, very unusual species.
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing in 20 years' time there will be no rainforests left, just to use one example. Looking into the future may be one of the reasons that brains evolved in the first place.
We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.
We have the power to turn against our creators.
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.
We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking.
What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.
'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.
What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?
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