Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded… I fear that, if the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow… — 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
