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
“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
THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one… — 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
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
I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it… — 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
“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
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire. — 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
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise… — 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
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
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
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common… — 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
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
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for… — 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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