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
track changing-environment doe
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.
mean six doe
I can't be sure God does not exist... On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six... That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don't.
facts doe belief
The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.
people passionate doe
I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to be, and it teaches them that the other religion is the wrong one.
people confusion doe
Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.
beautiful world doe
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
interesting doe evolution
There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.
doubt needs doe
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
may doe being-true
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
doe universe
The Universe does not owe us meaning.
doe add bangs
Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.
doe argument prove
The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.
thoughtful matter born
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
rip successful catholic
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.