Quotes by Richard Dawkins

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

At least the fundamentalists haven’t tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

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

Segregation has no place in the education system.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.