Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
