What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing… — 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
...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
…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have… — 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
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
Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker. — 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
Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope to eventually… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an… — 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
I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take… — 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
Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.… — 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
![“I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing in conflict between agreeing with Richard [Dawkins] in practically all of his conclusions about the natural world, and also saying that I am still able to accept and embrace the…” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/177/richard-dawkins-115_able_i-just-would-like-to-say-that-over-more_2074968.jpg)
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![“[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in God's creative power in having brought it all into being in the first place, I find that studying the natural world is an opportunity to observe the majesty, the elegance, the…” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/85d/richard-dawkins-115_artificial_jay-gould-sets-up-an-artificial-wall-bet_881270.jpg)
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