Richard Dawkins

'Richard Dawkins' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Dawkins, Richard Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Speciesism: The Movie

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Unbelievers

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Virus Called Fear

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Making Magic Happen

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Scientist
• Play in Full Screen Saturn's Embrace

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Nature of Existence Companion Series

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Reality of Me (TROM)

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Future Is Now!

  2011, role: actor , character name: The Scientist
• Play in Full Screen Godless

  2011, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Nature of Existence

  2010, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Faith School Menace?

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Nerdstock: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sex, Drugs & Religion

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The End of God? A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Faith School Menace?

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Dawkins vs Lennox: Has Science Buried God?

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hitchens vs Lennox: Can Atheism Save Europe?

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - audience member
• Play in Full Screen Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Genius of Charles Darwin

  2008, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen

  2008, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Elders

  2008, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Genius of Charles Darwin

  2008, role: actor , character name: Richard Dawkins
• Play in Full Screen The Enemies of Reason

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The God Delusion Debate

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Enemies of Reason

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Root of All Evil?

  2006, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Trouble with Atheism

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Root of All Evil?

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Tsunami: Where Was God?

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - University of Oxford
• Play in Full Screen Double Helix: The DNA Years

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Three Tales

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Growing Up in the Universe

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself - Host

Famous quotes by Richard Dawkins:

"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry"

"God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture"

"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"

"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings."

"The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity"

"Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on it's own merits. We need less emotion and more thought."

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

"There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?"

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."

"I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history."

"For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria."

"Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection."

"If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists."

"Evolution never looks to the future."

"We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space."

"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."

"The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture."

"I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims."

"I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance."

Richard Dawkins