1,184 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.