Richard Dawkins Quotes

Biography: Richard Dawkins is renowned for his work in evolutionary biology and h... more Biography: Richard Dawkins is renowned for his work in evolutionary biology and his advocacy of atheism. He wrote influential books like "The Selfish Gene" and "The God Delusion," which popularized gene-centered evolution and critiqued religion. As a prominent public intellectual, Dawkins has contributed significantly to scientific discourse. less

"Science brings us closer to the truth than does any other human activity.""There is something very odd about the respect accorded to religion.""God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.""We are digital minds in an analog world.""The less you think, the more you believe.""The universe doesn’t care what you believe. You can’t redeem yourself; redeeming is what you do to something you’ve done wrong.""Secularism teaches us to be good for our own sake.""When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion.""By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.""We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.""It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it could not work.""Science is the poetry of reality.""I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.""To live at all is miracle enough.""Climbing Mount Improbable.""The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.""Natural selection is anything but random.""The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.""Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense""I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will"

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