THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure… — 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 is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're… — 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
...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
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
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 mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.… — 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
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
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a Marxist child or an Anarchist child or a Post-modernist child. Yet children are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be… — 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
