There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic. — 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
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever… — 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
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life 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
