1,184 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.

Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.

I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

The Bible was written by fallible human beings.

A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.'

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.