“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one! — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have this one life, let's enjoy it, let's live it to the full and don't get so worked up about don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed… — 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
“There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness, which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point” — 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
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Curiously, peace-time appeals for individuals to make some small sacrifice in the rate at which they increase their standard of living seem… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Humans have always wondered about the meaning of life... life has no higher purpose than to perpetuate the survival of DNA... life… — 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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