Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance. — 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… — 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… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore… — 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
When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then… — 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
Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is… — 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
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
The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human… — 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
I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as… — 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
