Richard Dawkins Quotes

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so

Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

I'm not sure why we want each other," she grumbled. "Nor am I, but the fact remains that we do want each other." "Maybe I'm just shallow. You're quite pretty." "For now, that will do." Infuriating man. Couldn't take an insult the way she intended. -Annabelle and Zacharel

o, I don't want to say it's mine. Certainly, I'm leading, there's no question about that. But we have got a long way to go.

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

The quickest, simplest, and most powerful way I know to handle any emotion is to remember a time when you felt a similar emotion and realize that you've successfully handled this emotion before.

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.

A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.

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