Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to… — 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
[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
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
Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation. — 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
Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science. — 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
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — 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
Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly… — 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
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
“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
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for… — 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
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
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
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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