Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you listen to two people who are arguing about something, and they each of them have passionate faith that they're right,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Pope Francis seems to be a much nicer man than Pope Benedict, but I'm not sure that his views on things that… — 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
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... 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 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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