Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?'… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance."… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least… — 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
Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To me, the right approach is to say we are profoundly ignorant of these matters. We need to work on them. But… — 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
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
