--- title: "8 Claims Quotes By Richard Dawkins" description: "8 Claims quotes by Richard Dawkins. Plus more from Richard Dawkins and more Claims sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/richard-dawkins-115_claims_religions-do-make-claims-about-the-unive_13557.jpg" --- > [Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/religions-do-make-claims-about-the-universe-the-same-kinds-of-claims/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/richard-dawkins-115_claims_religions-do-make-claims-about-the-unive_13557.jpg) > [Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/science-shares-with-religion-the-claim-that-it-answers-deep-questions/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/richard-dawkins-115_answers_science-shares-with-religion-the-claim-t_1013956.jpg) > [A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/a-universe-with-a-god-would-look-quite-different-from-a-universe/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/richard-dawkins-115_biology_a-universe-with-a-god-would-look-quite-d_1509789.jpg) > [I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-think-nobody-would-claim-that-random-genetic-drift-is-capable-of/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d6/richard-dawkins-115_adaptation_i-think-nobody-would-claim-that-random-g_2231206.jpg) > [But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/but-what-after-all-is-faith-it-is-a-state-of-mind-that-leads-people/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/596/richard-dawkins-115_absence_but-what-after-all-is-faith-it-is-a-stat_2284432.jpg) > [It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/it-is-absolutely-safe-to-say-that-if-you-meet-somebody-who-claims-not/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/richard-dawkins-115_believe_it-is-absolutely-safe-to-say-that-if-you_2712352.jpg) > [Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/science-boosts-its-claim-to-truth-by-its-spectacular-ability-to-make/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b0/richard-dawkins-115_ability_science-boosts-its-claim-to-truth-by-its_2804932.jpg) > [I could easily believe that religion could enhance health and hence survival, and that therefore there could be indeed be literally Darwinian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-could-easily-believe-that-religion-could-enhance-health-and-hence/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf9/richard-dawkins-115_bears_i-could-easily-believe-that-religion-cou_3025027.jpg) ## Other authors on Claims ## More by Richard Dawkins > [At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/at-the-deepest-level-all-living-things-that-have-ever-been-looked-at/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-word-mundane-has-come-to-mean-boring-and-dull-and-it-really/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-animals-are-the-most-complicated-things-in-the-known-universe/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-fundamentalist-kurt-wise-proclaims-that-all-the-evidence-in-the/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-have-found-it-an-amusing-strategy-when-asked-whether-i-am-an/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/religions-do-make-claims-about-the-universe-the-same-kinds-of-claims/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/much-of-the-bible-is-not-systematically-evil-but-just-plain-weird-as/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-recurrent-laryngeal-nerve-which-runs-from-the-head-to-the-voice/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-roman-catholic-church-is-an-institution-for-whose-gains-the/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/let-us-understand-what-our-own-selfish-genes-are-up-to-because-we-may/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/what-s-going-to-happen-when-i-die-i-may-be-buried-or-i-may-be/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/or-why-it-is-acceptable-to-train-fast-runners-and-high-jumpers-but/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-have-seen-that-living-things-are-too-improbable-and-too/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [“We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/we-will-not-go-quietly-away-if-in-the-future-that-requires-violence/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) > [It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/it-s-a-truly-disgusting-idea-that-the-creator-of-the-universe-capable/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/claims/richard-dawkins/#itemlist", "name": "8 Claims Quotes By Richard Dawkins", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Dawkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/religions-do-make-claims-about-the-universe-the-same-kinds-of-claims/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/richard-dawkins-115_claims_religions-do-make-claims-about-the-unive_13557.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/richard-dawkins-115_claims_religions-do-make-claims-about-the-unive_13557.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/richard-dawkins-115_claims_religions-do-make-claims-about-the-unive_13557.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're…” — Richard Dawkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. 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