“on page 96 of my hero Peter Medawar’s book The Limits of Science: ‘I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I prefer to say that I believe in people, and people, when given the right encouragement to think for themselves about all… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.… — 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
So Occam's razor - Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward - leads me more to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“36. Argument from Incomplete Devastation: A plane crashed killing 143 passengers and crew. But one child survived with only third-degree burns. Therefore… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants… — 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
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