A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out. — 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 once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism . — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea). — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You believe that all humanity came from Adam and Eve, and humans have not evolved at all since. So tell me; between… — 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
I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not… — 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
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
I could easily believe that religion could enhance health and hence survival, and that therefore there could be indeed be literally Darwinian… — 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
I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature 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
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
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
It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe — 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
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn… — 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
Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead… — 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
You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a… — 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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