Richard Dawkins Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Richard Dawkins quotes, Richard Dawkins sayings, and Richard Dawkins proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

We are survival machines -- robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. Richard Dawkins
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point? The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. Richard Dawkins
Science is the poetry of reality. Richard Dawkins
Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that they constitute a (meaningless) pattern when seen from a certain (not particularly special) place in the galaxy (here). Richard Dawkins
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. Richard Dawkins
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Richard Dawkins
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle. Richard Dawkins
Evolution never looks to the future. Richard Dawkins
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. Richard Dawkins
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Richard Dawkins
If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result. Richard Dawkins
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. Richard Dawkins
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. Richard Dawkins
Biology is the study of the complex things in the Universe. Physics is the study of the simple ones. Richard Dawkins
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose. Richard Dawkins
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. Richard Dawkins
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. Richard Dawkins
Segregation has no place in the education system. Richard Dawkins
There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out. Richard Dawkins
All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities. Richard Dawkins
If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil. Richard Dawkins
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling – though not to me. Richard Dawkins
Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted by the thought that there is something offensive about their very existence. Clones are simply identical twins. Richard Dawkins
Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought. Richard Dawkins
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Richard Dawkins
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. Richard Dawkins
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. Richard Dawkins
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Richard Dawkins
The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to spread than others, because people like them, because they're popular, because they're catchy or whatever it might be. Richard Dawkins
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version Richard Dawkins