A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on… — 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
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is interesting - you find in the United States, there is a kind of anti-education hostility. It's the sort of Sarah… — 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
