Richard Dawkins Quotes

English - Scientist | March 26, 1941 -

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

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Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

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Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

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

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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.

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I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

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There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

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All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.

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We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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