If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have to look. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil. — 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
It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.… — 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
A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What Francis [Collins] was just saying about Genesis was, of course, a little private quarrel between him and his Fundamentalist colleagues. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded… I fear that, if the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as… — 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
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do… — 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
What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely,… — 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
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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