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

"For good people to do evil things, it takes religion""Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.""I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.""The chances of finding out what is actually going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang a sense of humor on it and hope for the best.""By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.""We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.""The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

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