Richard Dawkins Quotes

I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.
I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is absolutely no tendency for rioting and mayhem, and it is extremely civilised.
I love romantic poetry.
I love words.
I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
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.
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.
I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.
I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.
I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.
I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.
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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