1,184 Quotes by Richard Dawkins

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    Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science.

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    Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

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    I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

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    I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

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    There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.

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    I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

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    Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.

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    We are survival machines -- robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

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