I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a… — 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… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Creationists and Holocaust deniers are both very similar - both are denying what is a perfectly manifest fact. In the case of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I can't be sure God does not exist. On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is something so mysterious that it is almost like God. God is in the equations. God is in the fundamental constants.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep… — 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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