Author: Richard Dawkins

Quotes

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

- Richard Dawkins

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.

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.

- Richard Dawkins

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

- Richard Dawkins

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

- Richard Dawkins

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

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

- Richard Dawkins

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

- Richard Dawkins

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

- Richard Dawkins

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