“A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests." — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Oh golly, Brer Fox, your forthright assertion—that evolutionary biology disproves the idea of a creator God—jeopardises the teaching of biology in science… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we have reason to believe. Not what we have a duty to believe. Not what experts, in their… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“...none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them:… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But… — 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
It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We can't prove anything in science. But the best that scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how… — 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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