American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — 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
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
“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
“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
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
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
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
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
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