1,184 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.

Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.

When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity?