black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.

Richard Dawkins

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Alive Discover Humanity Limitation Time Understand
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Children Disagree Evaluation Evidence Teaching Thinking
In the beginning was simplicity.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Beginning One Liner Simplicity
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Born Chance Generosity Science Selfish Understand Upset
I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Diversity Enthusiasm Fact Opinion Science
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Intensity Opinion Truth
Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
RICHARD DAWKINS

God Religion Science Suppose Wonder
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Alone Earth Rebel Selfish
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Biology Evolution Fact History Ignorant Science
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Amount Beyond Decent Natural Suffering World
The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Chicken Egg Revolution Science
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
RICHARD DAWKINS

People Religion True Wise
Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Express Ignorance One Liner Word
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Dance DNA Music
If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Biology Children Expectation Human Moral Nature Teaching
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Belief Evade Evaluate Evidence Excuse Faith Ignorance

The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Richard Dawkins Quotes