1,184 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to be Big Brotherish. I would hate that.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.

We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish.

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?'

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think he was asking for trouble, and he certainly was misunderstood.

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.