We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts. — 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
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in… — 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
To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think it's misleading to use a word like 'God' in the way Einstein did. I'm sorry that Einstein did. I think… — 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'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern… — 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
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection process whereby some memes are more likely to… — 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
