Richard Dawkins Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.”

“Natural selection is anything but random.”

“For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.”

“Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.”

“Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.”

“I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.”

“People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.”

“The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.”

“If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions for people, I am likely to shock some of my friends.”

“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.”