Clinton Richard Dawkins net worth is
$135 Million
Clinton Richard Dawkins Wiki Biography
Clinton Richard Dawkins was born on 26 March 1941, in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa, of English descent. Richard is a writer and evolutionary biologist, best known for various books on evolution including “The Selfish Gene”. He is also credited with coining the term “meme” and has notably published books with views on religion and creationism. His efforts have helped raise his net worth to where it is now.
How rich is Richard Dawkins? As of early-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $135 million, mostly accumulated from various achievements in education, publications, television appearances and documentaries. He’s been well known since the 1970s and his continued work has ensured the rise of his wealth.
Richard Dawkins Net Worth $135 Million
Dawkins was brought up in a family that was very interested in the sciences. He believed creationism until he was shown the theory of evolution which changed his perspective on life. He attended Oundle School and then studied at and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in Zoology. There, he continued his studies under the tutelage of Nobel Prize winner Nikolaas Tinbergen, eventually earning his master’s and then his PhD. After school, Richard pursued a teaching career, becoming an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. During his time there, he became involved in anti-Vietnam War activities. In 1970, he became a fellow of New College, Oxford, eventually becoming an emeritus fellow. He became well known for his lectures, such as the “Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lecture” and the “Tanner Lectures”. His popularity even gave him the chance to judge events such as the “British Academy Television Awards”.
Aside from his educational career, Dawkins most notable work has been in evolutionary biology, where his main idea is that the gene is the main unit of evolution. He became widely known after publishing “The Selfish Gene” in 1976, which first noted genes as the focus. In 1982 he published another book – “The Extended Phenotype”. Richard’s work has been noted in various publications, though some of them he remains highly critical of, especially when his ideas become misunderstood in the context of other ideas. He released another book entitled “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, which was lined in time with the Darwin bicentennial year. According to him, Darwinism is one of the reasons why he is amazed at the complexity of life.
“The Selfish Gene” is the book in which Richard first used the term “meme”, Dawkins explains it as any cultural entity that may replicate an idea or set of ideas. While he was the first to coin the term, the idea itself was already existent in other publications before his.
Dawkins has been very critical of creationism and religion, writing several books against it and even creating a foundation called the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. The foundation focuses on the research of the psychology of religion and belief. His most popular work against religion is the book “The God Delusion” which was released in 2006. His viewpoints have been both praised and criticised, with some scientists defending his points of view and others saying that Richard’s words are more of a personal assertion than productive criticism.
For his personal life, it is known that Richard has been married three times. His first marriage was to ethologist Marian Stamp which lasted from 1967 to 1984. His second marriage was to Eve Barham in 1984 – they have a daughter, but divorced in 1992, and Dawkins married actress Lalla Ward the same year, who he met at a production of “Doctor Who”. Richard declares himself an atheist and credits Charles Darwin as the reason for his renewed viewpoint on the explanation and complexity of life.
Full Name | Richard Dawkins |
Net Worth | $135 Million |
Date Of Birth | March 26, 1941 |
Place Of Birth | Nairobi, Kenya |
Height | 1.78 m |
Profession | English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, author |
Education | Oundle School, Balliol College, Oxford |
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Marian Stamp (m. 1967; div. 1984), Eve Barham (m. 1984, divorsed), Lalla Ward (m. 1992) |
Children | Juliet Emma |
Parents | Clinton John Dawkins, Jean Mary Vyvyan |
Twitter | https://twitter.com/richarddawkins |
IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1468026 |
Awards | Royal Society of Literature award and a Los Angeles Times Literary Prize (1987), Sci. Tech Prize for Best Television Documentary Science Programme, The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (2002), Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest (2009), Freedom From Religion Foundation's Honora... |
Nominations | Goodreads Choice Awards Best Nonfiction |
Movies | Faith School Menace?, The Genius of Charles Darwin, The Enemies of Reason, The Root of All Evil?, Break the Science Barrier, The Future is Now!, The Four Horsemen |
TV Shows | Inside Nature's Giants |
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1 | High pitched voice |
2 | Posh English accent |
3 | Wears neck ties with animal designs on them |
4 | Grey hair, brown eyes, and glasses |
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1 | [responding to criticism from Ben Affleck] Mr Affleck, who I understand is Batman... |
2 | [on "The Big Debate" with Jonathan Dimbleby] The penalty for apostasy in the Christian religion is not death, there is no penalty for apostasy at all in the Christian religion. |
3 | Well, what if I'm wrong? I mean, anybody could be wrong. We could all be wrong about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Pink Unicorn and the Flying Teapot. You happened to have been brought up, I would presume, in the Christian Faith. You know what it's like not to believe in a particular Faith because you're not a Muslim, you're not a Hindu. Why aren't you a Hindu? Because you happened to have been brought up in America, not in India. If you'd been brought up in India, you'd be a Hindu. If you were brought up in Denmark in the time of the Vikings, you'd be believing in Wotan and Thor. If you were brought up in Classical Greece, you'd be believing in Zeus. If you were brought up in Central Africa, you'd be believing in the Great Ju-Ju up the Mountain. There's no particular reason to pick on the Judeo-Christian God, in which by the sheerest accident you happen to have been brought up, and ask me the question "What if I'm wrong?". What if you're wrong about the Great Ju-Ju at the Bottom of the Sea? [Thunderous applause] |
4 | [on the belief in a God] There are all sorts of things we can't be sure of - we can't be sure there are no leprechauns and fairies. Science in the future is going to be revealing all sorts of things which we have no idea of at present, but it's extremely unlikely that it would happen to home in on an idea from a Bronze Age tribe in the desert. |
5 | 'A' believes in fairies. 'B' believes in winged horses. Criticise 'A' and you're rational. Criticise 'B' and you're a bigoted racist Islamophobe. |
6 | Mehdi Hasan admits to believing Muhammad flew to heaven on a winged horse. And New Statesman sees fit to print him as a serious journalist. |
7 | Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. |
8 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was the only book I've ever read where I turned back to page one and read it all the way through again. I felt there was so much more I could get out of it. |
9 | I've always thought of Douglas (Douglas Adams) more as a writer of "science comedy", comedy of a sophisticated, scientific kind, than as a writer of science fiction. I'm not an aficionado of science fiction, although the genre has some value in teaching science and stretching the scientific imagination. But so many of Douglas's jokes are scientific jokes, and you don't get them unless you know the science. The first thing you notice about his writing is the verbal repartee. When I read Dirk Gently, every sentence had me laughing. It's fascinating, because it's a mixture of science fiction, comedy, ghost story, detective story, even a certain amount of literary scholarship. Douglas read English Literature at Cambridge and the set-piece about academic life in Dirk Gently is gorgeous. |
10 | [Refuting Paley's "Watchmaker Analogy", which is often used as a defense of Creationism] Of all the trillions of trillions of ways of putting together the parts of a body, only an infinitesimal minority would live, seek food, eat, and reproduce. True, there are many different ways of being alive - at least ten million different ways if we count the number of distinct species alive today - but, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead! We can safely conclude that living bodies are billions of times too complicated - too statistically improbable - to have come into being by sheer chance. How, then, did they come into being? The answer is that chance enters into the story, but not a single, monolithic act of chance. Instead, a whole series of tiny chance steps, each one small enough to be a believable product of its predecessor, occurred one after the other in sequence. These small steps of chance are caused by genetic mutations, random changes - mistakes really - in the genetic material. They give rise to changes in the existing bodily structure. |
11 | I shall argue that a predominant quality to be expected in a successful gene is ruthless selfishness. This gene selfishness will usually give rise to selfishness in individual behavior. However, as we shall see, there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals. 'Special' and 'limited' are important words in the last sentence. Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense. This brings me to the first point I want to make about what [The Selfish Gene] is not. I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave. I stress this, because I know I am in danger of being misunderstood by those people, all too numerous, who cannot distinguish a statement of belief in what is the case from an advocacy of what ought to be the case. My own feeling is that a human society based simply on the gene's law of universal ruthless selfishness would be a very nasty society in which to live. But unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop it being true. This book is mainly intended to be interesting, but if you would extract a moral from it, read it as a warning. Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to. |
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1 | Was a good friend and fan of Douglas Adams. There is a character in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy called Oolon Colluphid, a writer of controversial books such as "Where God went wrong", "Some more of God's greatest Mistakes", "Who is this God person anyway?" and "Well, that just about wraps it up for God.". |
2 | Coined the term "meme" in his book "The Selfish Gene" (1976). |
3 | Richard Dawkins is portrayed in the South Park Episode "Go, God, go XII" as a hero in the future for discovering, through his affair with "Miss" Garrison, that "it's not enough to be an Atheist, you have to be a dick about it to everyone who doesn't agree with you." In real life Richard Dawkins gave a presentation at the National Secular Society Conference in London in 2012, on how to discuss one's atheism with people. He ended his presentation with a slide that read "Don't be a dick". |
4 | Author of "The Blind watchmaker" and other books that often debunk religious ideas and explore evolution. |
5 | He holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. |
6 | His wife, the former actress Lalla Ward (The Hon. Mrs. Dawkins), is now an illustrator and illustrates his books. |
Writer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Faith School Menace? | 2010 | TV Movie documentary writer | |
The Genius of Charles Darwin | 2008 | TV Series documentary writer | |
Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen | 2008 | Video documentary writer | |
The Enemies of Reason | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | |
Root of All Evil? | 2006 | TV Movie documentary writer | |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Synonymy | 2014 | Video Game | Narrator |
The Simpsons | 2013 | TV Series | Richard Dawkins |
The Future Is Now! | 2011 | | The Scientist |
Doctor Who | 2008 | TV Series | Richard Dawkins |
Producer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen | 2008 | Video documentary producer | |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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SimLife | 1992 | Video Game inspirational thanks - as Dr. Richard Dawkins | |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Godless: The Truth Beyond Belief | 2017 | Documentary pre-production | |
Year Without God | | Documentary post-production | Himself |
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures | 2016 | TV Series documentary | Guest |
Nightwish: Live at Wembley Arena | 2016 | Video | Himself |
Órbita Laika: La Nueva Generación | 2016 | TV Series | Himself - Interviewee |
Beware the Slenderman | 2016 | Documentary | Himself - Evolutionary Biologist |
Skavlan | 2012-2015 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
The Daily Show | 2013-2015 | TV Series | Himself |
Real Time with Bill Maher | 2008-2015 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest / Himself - Author, 'An Appetite for Wonder' |
StarTalk | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
Newsnight | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
Breath of Life | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
McKenna | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
Speciesism: The Movie | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
The Hour | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
The Agenda with Steve Paikin | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
The Morning Show | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
The Unbelievers | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
Saturn's Embrace | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
Dawkins: Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life | 2012 | TV Series | Himself - Presenter |
A Virus Called Fear | 2012 | Documentary short | Himself |
Beautiful Minds | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Q&A | 2010-2012 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist / Himself - Panellist |
Making Magic Happen | 2012 | Documentary | Himself - Scientist |
The Big Questions | 2007-2012 | TV Series | Himself |
Brave New World with Stephen Hawking | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
The O'Reilly Factor | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
Kreuz & Quer | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Evolutionsbiologe |
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words | 2011 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Godless | 2011 | TV Series documentary | |
The Reality of Me (TROM) | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
The Nature of Existence Companion Series | 2011 | Video documentary | Himself |
The Nature of Existence | 2010 | Documentary | |
Faith School Menace? | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Presenter |
Genius of Britain: The Scientists Who Changed the World | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Presenter |
Nerdstock: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People | 2010 | TV Movie | Himself |
In Confidence | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Sex, Drugs & Religion | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
The Late Late Show | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
Late Review | 2009 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
Dawkins vs Lennox: Has Science Buried God? | 2009 | Video documentary | Himself |
Christianity: A History | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Author 'The God Delusion' |
Horizon | 1986-2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Himself - University of Oxford / Himself - Presenter |
The Genius of Charles Darwin | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Richard Dawkins |
Elders | 2008 | TV Series documentary | |
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
Hitchens vs Lennox: Can Atheism Save Europe? | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself - audience member |
The God Delusion Debate | 2007 | Video documentary | Himself (as Professor Richard Dawkins) |
Die Johannes B. Kerner Show | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
The Late Edition | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
The Enemies of Reason | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
HARDtalk | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
TEDTalks | 2006-2007 | TV Series | Himself |
The Trouble with Atheism | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Colbert Report | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
Jonathan Dimbleby | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
Root of All Evil? | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Tsunami: Where Was God? | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - University of Oxford |
Charlie Rose | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
The Al Franken Show | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
Miracle Planet | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Oxford University |
Now | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Atheism Tapes | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Brief History of Disbelief | 2004 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Biologist |
Double Helix: The DNA Years | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Three Tales | 2002 | | Himself |
Understanding | 2002 | TV Series | Himself - Author |
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture | 1996 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Brains Trust | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
Network First | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The South Bank Show | 1992 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures | 1991-1992 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Presenter |
Growing Up in the Universe | 1991 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Host |
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