Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably none will be. Those not extinct will be 'civilised' — or corrupted, depending on your point of view.
Richard Dawkins
Related Clearly, if we don't do anything, I think it's accurate to say a number of populations of salmon wil... BRIAN GORMAN Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Microsoft has a tremendous amount of patience, which can be inspiring or distressing, depending on y... MARK ANDERSON Gainesville has got some real problems with its code because of a lack of sites. Six or seven years ... GARY EDINGER 80 or 90 years on this broken fallen sin planet will seem like the blink of an eye as we spend etern... JUSTIN STECKBAUER You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins. DAVID MITCHELL If you had to put all your money on one living poet whose work will be read in a hundred years, Rich... CHRISTIAN WIMAN I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years.... DENNIS MILLER I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years.... TED TURNER Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all t... JIM CRACE 1+1 may not be 2, depending on your mindset. As 2+3*4 may be 14 or 20 depending on your calculator. KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators ... J.P. RANGASWAMI How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Y... BARRY SCHWARTZ Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion more of us than we own of them. In my view, it wil... WARREN BUFFETT To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Will that happen? I don't know. Ten years ago nobody would have said NBA All-Star game would be on c... GREG HUGHES I don?t know what your story will be, but if you don?t find a way to talk about innovation, it?s dis... JULIE ANIXTER I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election m... GEORGE BUSH Your emotions will wander like a vagabond when you're indebted. Those happy moments with friends wil... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Depending on the economic indicators, the currency market will be more volatile than before. MASAFUMI YAMAMOTO It graphically portrays human beings were on this landscape. There's been 10,000 years of continuous... ROSEMARY SUCEC Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i... ROBERT WINSTON At about 1 pm PST we started getting reports that people were seeing an unusual number of W95/CTX in... JOE TELAFICI At about 1 p.m. PST we started getting reports that people were seeing an unusual number of W95/CTX ... JOE TELAFICI If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all t... ABRAHAM MASLOW Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our electi... GEORGE H. W. BUSH Without customers businesses will be extinct SOTONYE ANGA 'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, dependin... CLIVE BARKER The price point has to be attractive to an institution, but we're not talking about thousands of dol... HARVEY SCHILLER To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD The economy is probably more hot than cold at this point. The inflation measure will be the one to w... LES SATLOW Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get... J.K. ROWLING We must hold our lawmakers accountable and our courts responsible, or democracy and freedom of speec... FRANK SERPICO Todos somos ateos respecto a la mayoría de dioses en los que la humanidad ha creído alguna vez. Al... RICHARD DAWKINS (BIóLOGO) We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th... RICHARD DAWKINS We will either adapt and adopt or, like so many others, say 99% of all species, we too will go extin... JUAN ENRIQUEZ Basically, it will be about a two-minute parade. Depending on how fast the driver goes. JAMIE BRAZIL The video took place a number of years ago. If we handle a stalking experience now it probably will ... DETECTIVE PAUL BERTOLAMI Today will be all about more of this and it will probably only get worse. DANNY BAKER None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it w... ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain ... AUGUSTUS HARE If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer d... TOM HODGKINSON None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. MATTHEW HENRY My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are con... MARILYNNE ROBINSON Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. ELISABETH ELLIOT We think all of those three are going to happen in the next two years. Ramona will probably be next.... BRIAN SAMSON There will be a lot of emotions, but the biggest thing I'll be thinking about is, 'Did we do all tha... BILL MORGAN When it's all said and done, it's probably going to be more than $10,000 because it's pretty wide sp... LARRY KRANTZ If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then ... BARRY JONES We hope that as soon as all the hoops and loops have been gone through that we will be able to tie i... ANNE DUNN More than 1,000 unique structures have been deposited and made available and 5,000 to 10,000 additio... CHARLES EDMONDS Depending on what happens with that, we will either be considering an appeal or starting with discov... DEBORAH SEAGLE This world isn't a battlefield. Someday you will realise how your success depends on a bunch of othe... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unl... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF On both of those two prior occasions, they soon regretted their buying binges...and they probably wi... ERIC FRY We will understand that fear is not a special feature of human being, if we saw ourselves from the c... SUNDAY ADELAJA Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they ag... This will probably be on the same level - if not bigger - than the Ralph Bell crusade. CHUCK KING I feel the rally has stalled amid disappointment about progress in the war, but Bush is right, the a... CLIVE MCDONNELL It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ag... ROGER VON OECH From his point of view, once we got Wily Mo, this probably was not the best place to be. TERRY FRANCONA You had better live your best, think your best and do your best today...for today will soon be tomor... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE "When we've been there 10,000 years..." / We'll see all trips were brief, / For there love's joy wil... DAVID L. HATTON It's one of those years ? probably like two years ago ? where you've got to be able to move guys aro... JEFF STOUTLAND I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter. JACKSON PEARCE Corn has a long history with humans _ probably a 10,000-year history. It probably was developed by p... KAREN ADAMS If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring ... C.S. LEWIS Pretty soon, there will not be any debate in this city about overcrowded prisons. AIDS will take car... MARIO MEROLA Two years ago we were evil hackers. One year ago, depending on who quoted us, we were a mix of hacke... BRIAN MARTIN I will be merciless. I will decide (candidates) depending only on whether they are against or for th... JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all y... WAYNE DYER The immediate impact of the minimum-wage increase will probably be negligible because we are already... CAROL PREGILL There are a lot of people who will be brutal to these people. There will be comments made, probably ... BILL BECK A couple of years ago I recorded some tracks with Rich Harrison. But none of that music will appear ... JANET JACKSON Any attempt to forecast what skills will be needed 10 years from now is just folly. If 10 years ago ... JOSH BIVENS People are interested in numbers. Would I stay up all night waiting for it? Ten years ago, I would h... JACK HORKHEIMER Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities.... DIONNE WARWICK I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and ... HAYAO MIYAZAKI It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sc... EDWARD THORNDIKE But at this point, it's too soon to know whether China will wait or whether it will allow additional... KRISTIN J. FORBES It is better to bless others, than to be exalted yourself; the time of your adoration will come soon... SCOTTIE SOMERS Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. ... CASSANDRA CLARE If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM To no who you really are in self-actualization you will not only no yourself from a physical point o... GARY F EVANS... To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God o... JOHN C. LENNOX At 10,000 units we will be making money. ALEXANDER KLOSE Those comments were made some 12 or 13 years ago. All of us may hold opinions which are objectionabl... INAYAT BUNGLAWALA Depending on what they find, they'll be digging either 30 feet or 100 feet. Those samples will be ta... BOB MACEY We will expect to be there quick enough so that food, water, those sorts of issues probably will not... GENE KITTS On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE But none of it will be real. None of them will want me. My throne, yes. Prestige. A conquest. But no... RAE CARSON Years ago, people were worried that everybody that's gay will have AIDS. That's just not true. DIANNE HOWARD You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and e... DAVID STERN America will soon cease to exist. Fallacies, and lies have ruled over your nation's great name. Demi... ENRIQUE VEGA
More Richard Dawkins
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des... RICHARD DAWKINS Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically. RICHARD DAWKINS There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing... RICHARD DAWKINS Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly,... RICHARD DAWKINS The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discour... RICHARD DAWKINS It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is soc... RICHARD DAWKINS How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyo... RICHARD DAWKINS The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been... RICHARD DAWKINS Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Human... RICHARD DAWKINS The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and p... RICHARD DAWKINS The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri... RICHARD DAWKINS After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl... RICHARD DAWKINS The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes. Like... RICHARD DAWKINS It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lo... RICHARD DAWKINS It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you ca... RICHARD DAWKINS My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but ... RICHARD DAWKINS Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-m... RICHARD DAWKINS Same religion that saves - Damns You RICHARD DAWKINS There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your... RICHARD DAWKINS Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and rewar... RICHARD DAWKINS There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove t... RICHARD DAWKINS The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri... RICHARD DAWKINS ...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessari... RICHARD DAWKINS Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions a... RICHARD DAWKINS Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,'... RICHARD DAWKINS There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't pro... RICHARD DAWKINS To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doct... RICHARD DAWKINS I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignoran... RICHARD DAWKINS Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts ... RICHARD DAWKINS Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god. RICHARD DAWKINS Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Ma... RICHARD DAWKINS I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. RICHARD DAWKINS One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers whi... RICHARD DAWKINS Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. RICHARD DAWKINS We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the... RICHARD DAWKINS Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. RICHARD DAWKINS Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. RICHARD DAWKINS Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to sugges... RICHARD DAWKINS My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, b... RICHARD DAWKINS A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. RICHARD DAWKINS The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - thou... RICHARD DAWKINS Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we tho... RICHARD DAWKINS Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A ... RICHARD DAWKINS Beauty arises out of human inspiration. RICHARD DAWKINS I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. RICHARD DAWKINS Evolution never looks to the future. RICHARD DAWKINS The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall ... RICHARD DAWKINS The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle. RICHARD DAWKINS We have a huge amount of DNA in common with jellyfish. RICHARD DAWKINS Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a... RICHARD DAWKINS Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith... RICHARD DAWKINS Natural selection is anything but random. RICHARD DAWKINS God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the envir... RICHARD DAWKINS By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. RICHARD DAWKINS I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters,... RICHARD DAWKINS Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a p... RICHARD DAWKINS I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in ac... RICHARD DAWKINS Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an inno... RICHARD DAWKINS Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say i... RICHARD DAWKINS The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection proce... RICHARD DAWKINS I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the bac... RICHARD DAWKINS If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of s... RICHARD DAWKINS When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous ... RICHARD DAWKINS Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we tho... RICHARD DAWKINS If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical li... RICHARD DAWKINS Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stor... RICHARD DAWKINS There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists. RICHARD DAWKINS Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a ... RICHARD DAWKINS Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks a... RICHARD DAWKINS If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, ... RICHARD DAWKINS We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go ... RICHARD DAWKINS My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism. RICHARD DAWKINS We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about... RICHARD DAWKINS In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the i... RICHARD DAWKINS An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and sprea... RICHARD DAWKINS The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented... RICHARD DAWKINS We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. RICHARD DAWKINS We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far sho... RICHARD DAWKINS Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance. RICHARD DAWKINS Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was k... RICHARD DAWKINS I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western ... RICHARD DAWKINS If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that ther... RICHARD DAWKINS I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationist... RICHARD DAWKINS Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follo... RICHARD DAWKINS If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants... RICHARD DAWKINS I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep tal... RICHARD DAWKINS For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria... RICHARD DAWKINS A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barb... RICHARD DAWKINS A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane'... RICHARD DAWKINS The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft ... RICHARD DAWKINS Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection,... RICHARD DAWKINS It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think o... RICHARD DAWKINS I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,'... RICHARD DAWKINS I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with ... RICHARD DAWKINS Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingle... RICHARD DAWKINS I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same ... RICHARD DAWKINS People like to trace their ancestry. RICHARD DAWKINS What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of th... RICHARD DAWKINS What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to ... RICHARD DAWKINS Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain... RICHARD DAWKINS We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here. RICHARD DAWKINS There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about,... RICHARD DAWKINS From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do ... RICHARD DAWKINS Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of ... RICHARD DAWKINS We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status... RICHARD DAWKINS You could give Ar... RICHARD DAWKINS The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests,... RICHARD DAWKINS The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the te... RICHARD DAWKINS We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us... RICHARD DAWKINS We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because th... RICHARD DAWKINS Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But am... RICHARD DAWKINS As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival wi... RICHARD DAWKINS I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like ... RICHARD DAWKINS Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned a... RICHARD DAWKINS Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about... RICHARD DAWKINS If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolu... RICHARD DAWKINS The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning... RICHARD DAWKINS When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructi... RICHARD DAWKINS Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up soc... RICHARD DAWKINS They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate ratio... RICHARD DAWKINS Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. ... RICHARD DAWKINS Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. RICHARD DAWKINS What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said ... RICHARD DAWKINS What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather t... RICHARD DAWKINS Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different... RICHARD DAWKINS I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that i... RICHARD DAWKINS You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature ... RICHARD DAWKINS Passion for passion, an evangelical Christian and I may be evenly matched. But we are not equally fu... RICHARD DAWKINS Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated soci... RICHARD DAWKINS The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's a... RICHARD DAWKINS Even if 'going retrograde' or 'moving into Aquarius' were real phenomena, something ... RICHARD DAWKINS I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine... RICHARD DAWKINS George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden. RICHARD DAWKINS Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school i... RICHARD DAWKINS The Bible was written by fallible human beings. RICHARD DAWKINS All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time ... RICHARD DAWKINS [Evolution is] a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen... RICHARD DAWKINS God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs. RICHARD DAWKINS I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine... RICHARD DAWKINS I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious... RICHARD DAWKINS I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the po... RICHARD DAWKINS Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but the... RICHARD DAWKINS A good theory explains a lot but postulates little. RICHARD DAWKINS The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or... RICHARD DAWKINS The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri... RICHARD DAWKINS Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted... RICHARD DAWKINS God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the envir... RICHARD DAWKINS I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear abou... RICHARD DAWKINS What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views. RICHARD DAWKINS I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to refle... RICHARD DAWKINS Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. RICHARD DAWKINS Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of ... RICHARD DAWKINS The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, scienc... RICHARD DAWKINS If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against y... RICHARD DAWKINS The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will p... RICHARD DAWKINS I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of l... RICHARD DAWKINS There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. ... RICHARD DAWKINS Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it. RICHARD DAWKINS I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misuse... RICHARD DAWKINS In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I d... RICHARD DAWKINS Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. RICHARD DAWKINS I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite ... RICHARD DAWKINS Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions an... RICHARD DAWKINS The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the h... RICHARD DAWKINS It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, Lon... RICHARD DAWKINS There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young... RICHARD DAWKINS The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations ha... RICHARD DAWKINS There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides ... RICHARD DAWKINS A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.' RICHARD DAWKINS Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake... RICHARD DAWKINS If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing fo... RICHARD DAWKINS Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, ... RICHARD DAWKINS The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale RICHARD DAWKINS Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought,... RICHARD DAWKINS To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect o... RICHARD DAWKINS After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous pl... RICHARD DAWKINS I don't feel depressed. I feel elated. RICHARD DAWKINS I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the... RICHARD DAWKINS The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the... RICHARD DAWKINS The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our ... RICHARD DAWKINS I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there&... RICHARD DAWKINS Осьминог ничем не похож на мышь, а оба они сильно отлич�... RICHARD DAWKINS Некоторые критики ошибочно считают, что «Эгоистичный �... RICHARD DAWKINS We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules kno... RICHARD DAWKINS But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the na... RICHARD DAWKINS Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th... RICHARD DAWKINS Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could... RICHARD DAWKINS Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye wi... RICHARD DAWKINS A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of re... RICHARD DAWKINS The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two m... RICHARD DAWKINS It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some... RICHARD DAWKINS Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supp... RICHARD DAWKINS The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never ... RICHARD DAWKINS Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly depa... RICHARD DAWKINS Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consumin... RICHARD DAWKINS There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children,... RICHARD DAWKINS The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose ... RICHARD DAWKINS Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independen... RICHARD DAWKINS If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You d... RICHARD DAWKINS Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest n... RICHARD DAWKINS