Richard Dawkins Quotes

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.