Richard Dawkins Quotes

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.
I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.
I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.
I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.
I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.
I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days.
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.
I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.
I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.
I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them is given 20 minutes to give their point of view, and then 10 minutes for a rebuttal, or whatever, that creates the illusion that you really do have here two equal points of view of equal scientific standing.
I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.
I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.
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