The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on… — 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
