Different Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?

— Richard Dawkins

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

— Richard Dawkins

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

— Richard Dawkins

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William…

— Richard Dawkins

When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of…

— Richard Dawkins

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

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a…

— Richard Dawkins

Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something…

— Richard Dawkins

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get…

— Richard Dawkins

Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that…

— Richard Dawkins

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

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

Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of…

— Richard Dawkins

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

We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same,…

— Richard Dawkins

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

Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A…

— Richard Dawkins

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

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,…

— Richard Dawkins

I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an…

— Richard Dawkins

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists…

— Richard Dawkins

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.…

— Richard Dawkins