Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.

Richard Dawkins's Popular Quotes

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

- Richard Dawkins

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to cri…

- Richard Dawkins

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

- Richard Dawkins

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

- Richard Dawkins

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

- Richard Dawkins

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

- Richard Dawkins

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

- Richard Dawkins

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

- Richard Dawkins

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

- Richard Dawkins