If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children,… — 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
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was… — 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
If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously… — 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
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — 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
