Richard Dawkins Quotes

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

Real change happens a step at a time.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.

All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.

One person at a time, one company at a time.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved.

The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth century scientific theory has become a reality for evolutionary biologists.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.