Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins FRS FRSLis an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 March 1941
CityNairobi, Kenya
Richard Dawkins quotes about
thinking important answers
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.
segregation education-system
Segregation has no place in the education system.
machines too-much emphasis
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
doors miracle radio
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
life birthday intelligent
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
dna levels genes
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
ideas free-will biology
I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.
feels
I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.
looks evolution looking-to-the-future
Evolution never looks to the future.
children islamic catholic
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'
school average careers
I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
one-day may bangs
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
understanding way sometimes
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
thinking magic fairy-tale
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.