“The behaviour of physical, nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it, which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The equivalent of the moth’s light-compass reaction is the apparently irrational but useful habit of falling in love with one, and only… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The point of the prey being paralysed rather than killed, by the way, is that they don't decay but are eaten alive… — 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
