Richard Dawkins

Born 1941 · Evolutionary biologist and author

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist whose books connect genetics with questions about human life and culture. He held Oxford’s professorship for the public understanding of science from 1995 to 2008; in Unweaving the Rainbow he argues that scientific explanations can deepen wonder.

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3 quotes we’ve traced to Richard Dawkins

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

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“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones”

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“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence”

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