There is something wrong with using faith - belief without evidence - as a political weapon. I wouldn't say there is something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?'… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to… — 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
If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the… — 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
I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Creationists and Holocaust deniers are both very similar - both are denying what is a perfectly manifest fact. In the case of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is often said, mainly by the 'no-contests', that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith is the lack of evidence, and it shouldn't be that difficult to convince people that the right reason to believe something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children,… — 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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