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
“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Humans have always wondered about the meaning of life... life has no higher purpose than to perpetuate the survival of DNA... life… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — 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
However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone,… — 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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