“Nothing is more lethal for certain kinds of meme than a tendency to look for evidence.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate… — 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
