I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by." — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The sin of Adam and Eve is thought to be have passed down the male line - transmitted in the semen according… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If you feel trapped in the religion of your upbringing, it would be worth asking yourself how this came about. The answer… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Our society, including the non-religious sector, has accepted the preposterous idea that it is normal and right to indoctrinate tiny children in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Shouldn’t children be taught critical, sceptical thinking from an early age? Shouldn’t we all be taught to doubt, to weigh up plausibility,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.' — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I guess there are some rights of parents with what they choose their children to learn, but I'm biased in favor of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is something breathtakingly condescending, as well as inhumane, about the sacrificing of anyone, especially children, on the altar of 'diversity' and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, 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
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