All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Pascal’s Wager could only ever be an argument for feigning belief in God. And the God that you claim to believe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Returning to humanity’s need for comfort, it is, of course, real, but isn’t there something childish in the belief that the universe… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We would not waste time saying so because nobody, so far as I know, worships teapots;fn4 but, if pressed, we would not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,… — 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
I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that… — 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
“As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“36. Argument from Incomplete Devastation: A plane crashed killing 143 passengers and crew. But one child survived with only third-degree burns. Therefore… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. Teaching children that unquestioned faith is a virtue… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Only religious faith is a strong enough force to motivate such utter madness in otherwise sane and decent people.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“But how can there be a perversion of faith, if faith, lacking objective justification, doesn't have any demonstrable standard to pervert.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.” — 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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