My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a… — 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
