A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“God, in the sense defined, is a delusion; and, as later chapters will show, a pernicious delusion.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. — 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
“Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: ‘When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — 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
